Re: [HACKERS] Beta for 4:30AST ... ?

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> On 2000-02-22, Bruce Momjian mentioned:
> 
> > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > > 
> > > >    * -Add BIT, BIT VARYING
> > > 
> > > This is currently suffering from BIT rot in contrib. Not really usable.
> > > And we can't squeeze it in until the bootstrap scanner recognizes tokens
> > > with spaces in it. (Does it?)
> > 
> > Aw man, I promised to put that into the main tree.  Is it not usable? 
> > Spaces?
> 
> Somehow you have to do something similar to
> insert OID = 9999 ( bit varying PGUID 1 1 t b t \054 0 0 bitvaryingin ... )
> 
> And no, naming the type bit_varying internally is not an acceptable
> answer. ;) We might want to start thinking about this item before national
> character comes our way. (Or just document the solution, if it already
> exists.)

Huh, I still don't get it.  What is the matter with that insert?

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