Being 'cool' about the issue meant Dain was fine in supporting
the required behavior. There was no implication that the users
were idiots. Try reading the mail a little more carefully before
deciding you need to rant.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Georg Schmid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Dain Sundstrom'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Stephen Coy'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "'jboss-user'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:53 PM
Subject: RE: [JBoss-user] Fwd: Bug when converting EJB QL boolean
comparisons from true and false to 1 and 0


>
> Dain,
>
> this is a quite obvious bug (if you ever tried to select on a boolean EB
> field backed by
> an Oracle table), so why are you so cool about it??
>
> I have a EB with a mostRecent boolean field, and because of this bug
> there is no way
> to make a custom finder like
>
> select object(myEB)
>   from MyEBTable
>  where myEB.mostRecent = true
>
> work.
>
> Please don't get into the habit of thinking your users are idiots...
>
> --- five lines of additional rant suppressed --
>
> Georg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dain
> Sundstrom
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 07:35
> To: Stephen Coy
> Cc: jboss-user
> Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] Fwd: Bug when converting EJB QL boolean
> comparisons from true and false to 1 and 0
>
>
> Cool, can you post a bug report, so I don't forget to make the change?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -dain
>
> Stephen Coy wrote:
>
> > Sorry Dain,
> >
> > I was trying to point out that not all SQL implementations support the
> > use of literal "true" and "false" values.
> >
> > Therefore, we need to get them mapped to "1" and "0" respectively in
> > this situation.
> >
> > On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 02:53  PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
> >
> >> This is like pulling teeth. Just tell me what you want and why, short
> >> and sweet.  Think 72 words.
> >>
> >> I should true map to 1 and false to 0 in Oracle, SQLServer and MySQL?
> >> I add some more metadata for this.
> >>
> >
> > The short answer is yes.



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