On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, sad wrote: > On Tuesday 31 August 2004 17:49, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > > On Aug 31, 2004, at 8:24 PM, sad wrote: > > > and i am still desire to know _WHY_ there are no predefined cast for > > > BOOL ? > > > and at the same time there are predefined casts for INT and FLOAT...... > > > > I think the main reason is what is the proper textual representation of > > BOOLEAN? True, PostgreSQL returns 't' as a representation for the > > BOOLEAN value TRUE, but some people might want it to return 'TRUE' or > > 'true' or other representations. Picking one is perhaps arbitrary. > > There are many (infinite number) of INT representations, > "Picking one is perhaps arbitrary." But you poke one and using it.
There's a fairly accepted convention for integer representations. There's no such convention for boolean representations. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly