Some SQL92 functionality is missing from the BIT and VARBIT types.
It should be possible to enter hexadecimal values as:
B'[<bit>...]'[{<separator>...'[<bit...]'}...] X'[<hexdigit>...]'[{<separator>...'[<hexdigit...]'}...]
(Cannan and Otten: SQL - The Standard Handbook, p.38)
but the hexadeximal form is not accepted.
For example:
bray=# \d junk Table "junk"Attribute | Type | Modifier
-----------+--------------+----------id | character(4) | not nullflag1 | bit(1) | flags | bit(8)
|
Index: junk_pkey
bray=# insert into junk values ('BBBB',B'0',X'FF');
ERROR: Attribute 'flags' is of type 'bit' but expression is of type 'int4'You will need to rewrite or cast the
expression
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