On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Howard Rogers <h...@diznix.com> wrote: > Suppose 1=Red, 2=Yellow, 4=Green and 8=Orange. > > Now suppose the following data structures and rows exist: > > create table coloursample (recid integer, colour integer, descript varchar); > insert into coloursample values (1,2,'Yellow only'); > insert into coloursample values (2,10,'Yellow and Orange'); > insert into coloursample values (3,11,'Red, Yellow and Orange'); > insert into coloursample values (4,12,'Green and Orange'); > insert into coloursample values (5,13,'Red, Green and Orange');
Is there a reason you're avoiding bit strings? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-bit.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-bitstring.html -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
