Anyone?

On 8-8-2013 19:10, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> I was looking at implementing boolean in Jaybird trunk (+ backport to
> 2.2.x), but I'd like some confirmation on how it is encoded in the
> XSQLVAR and in the wireprotocol.
>
> A quick skim of the sources seem to indicate that the XSQLVAR sqldata is
> a single byte. And that 0x00 is considered false and anything else is
> considered true. Is that right? If indeed anything else is considered
> true, is there a value that should be preferred (eg true = 1), or is it
> really 'anything goes'?
>
> In the wire protocol it is encoded as a (4-byte) long? I am a bit
> confused about this though as in xdr.cpp there is a xdr_bool which
> doesn't seem to be used anywhere, and instead xdr_datum for
> dtype_boolean uses xdr_opaque.
>
> I hope someone can confirm and/or clarify this. Thanks.
>
> Mark
>


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Mark Rotteveel

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