PL Problems.

I have my marvelous bit type working now, and now I find out I cannot
use it in PL scripts.

tt=> create table test (a int4, b bit2);
CREATE
tt=> CREATE FUNCTION mytrig () RETURNS opaque AS
'
tt-> '
tt'> DECLARE
tt'>   def_state CONSTANT BIT2 := 'b0001'::BIT2;
tt'> BEGIN
tt'>   new.b = def_state;
tt'>   RETURN new;
tt'> END;
tt'> ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "b0001"
tt=>

I've tried all combinations I could think of, always with the same
result.

Is this a restriction in PL? I would have thought that the types are
simply looked up in the systems tables, or do I have to do something
else?

Any help greatly appreciated! Even if only to tell me that this doesn't
work in which case I can convert back to using integers.

Cheers,

Adriaan