On Wednesday 01 September 2004 09:24, Stephan Szabo wrote: > 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.
then why do you print its value on a screen ?! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
