On Wednesday 12 May 2004 07:05 am, Mats Sjöberg wrote:
> Hello everyone
> In a table i have a column status of type bigint.
> I need to create a view of the table including all rows with bit 4 set
> (value 8).
> At the same time i need to exclude excludig all rows with bit 2 set.
>
> What is the syntax to extract those bits?
> I have tested get_bit(string, offset) but this requires a string, and not a
> bigint.
> Is there a function to
The easiest way is to test for a bit using bitwise and:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE (status & 2::BIGINT) <> 0 AND (status & 8::BIGINT) =
0;
-miker
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