Re: Binary data type with other output method

[Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de>]

Hello,

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:11:45 -0500 Tom Lane wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> I think you'd really need a separate type.  But have you considered
> something simple like
> 	CREATE DOMAIN boolint AS int CHECK (value = 0 OR value = 1)

i considered this one but this would only bring 0/1 as input, not as
output values, which is what i want.

The reason for my question is: PHP (yes *grumble*) does not recognize
boolean columns but instead makes a simple string from a PG boolean.

So every time you select a boolean column in PHP, you cannot use
expressions like:

if (!$bool)

because 't' and 'f' give TRUE in PHP.

I was begged many times by our people coding PHP to find a workaround
for this problem.


Kind regards

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				Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group