Binary casting

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Table 9.10. Bit String Operators

Operator	Description	Example	Result
||	concatenation	B'10001' || B'011'	10001011
&	bitwise AND	B'10001' & B'01101'	00001
|	bitwise OR	B'10001' | B'01101'	11101
#	bitwise XOR	B'10001' # B'01101'	11100
~	bitwise NOT	~ B'10001'	01110
<<	bitwise shift left	B'10001' << 3	01000
>>	bitwise shift right	B'10001' >> 2	00100

The following SQL-standard functions work on bit strings as well as character strings: length, bit_length, octet_length, position, substring.
In addition, it is possible to cast integral values to and from type bit. Some examples:

44::bit(10)                    0000101100
44::bit(3)                     100
cast(-44 as bit(12))           111111010100
'1110'::bit(4)::integer        14

Note that casting to just “bit” means casting to bit(1), and so it will deliver only the least significant bit of the integer.