Johan Björk wrote:
>
> I'm new to PostgreSQL, and I'm trying to migrate a MySQL-implementation to this instead... It's really different from
MySQL,and the docs are not as good, and the IRC-channel (on EFNet at least) is really really inactive. But still. :-)
Maybethe mailinglist is more impressive...
>
> Have a little problem with bit operaitions that I cannot find the answer to on the Internet. Have been searching
throughthe archives but no result.
>
> In MySQL you can have a INT column and do bit logic ala C-style like this:
> "select * from table where flags & 4;"
>
> Can I do something similar with std SQL? I've been trying to cast everything to BIT but without success, and I've
alsobeen creating a "flags bit(4)", setting a row to "1000" (8) and trying to compare, but I have absolutely no idea
howto.
>
> Say I wanna check if 8 (1xxx) and 2 (xx1x) is set, how do I do that?!
select * from table where (flags & 8) <> 0;
select * from table where (flags & 2) <> 0;
Regards,
Oliver
