"Christopher Kings-Lynne" wrote:
  >I have been using the BIT and VARBIT types in Postgres 7.0.3 (undocumented I
  >believe), and I note that the _input_ format is as follows:
  >
  >update blah set flags='b101001';  -- Binary

That is still accepted.

  >update blah set flags='xff45';  -- Hex
  
That is not.

  >But the _output_ format (for varbit) is always:
  >
  >B'1010110'


bray=# select * from junk;
  id  | flag1 |  flags   | flags2 
------+-------+----------+--------
 AAAA | 1     | 11000101 | 
 BBBB | 0     | 00111010 | 
 cccc | 0     | 01101100 | 11001
 dddd | 0     | 01100000 | 

  >Has any of this changed in 7.1?

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      And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the
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