> > I ended up writing a bunch of code to accomplish what I initially
> > thought would be just some casting and bitops on built-in types.
> I imagine you could have done something involving textout() and
> varbit_in(), like
>
> alvherre=# select varbit_in(textout(translate('YYNY', 'YN', '10')), 123::oid, 32);
> varbit_in
> -----------
> 1101
> (1 fila)
Ah... This is more like it. Thank you.
I'll explore this more tomorrow. Are "varbit_in" and "textout"
documented?
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