Re: psql: add \pset true/false - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Daniel Verite
Subject Re: psql: add \pset true/false
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Msg-id 0949c317-3ec4-4516-a3aa-33a6cfbf5267@mm
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In response to psql: add \pset true/false  (Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to>)
Responses Re: psql: add \pset true/false  (Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to>)
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    Marko Tiikkaja wrote:

> Since the default t/f output for booleans is not very user friendly,
> attached is a patch which enables you to do for example the following:

Personally I think it would be worth having, but how about
booleans inside ROW() or composite types ?

test=> \pset true 1
Boolean TRUE display is "1".
test=> \pset false 0
Boolean FALSE display is "0".

test #1:

test=> select 't'::bool,'f'::bool;bool | bool
------+------1    | 0

test #2:

test=> select ('t'::bool,'f'::bool); row
-------(t,f)

test #3:

test=> create type abc as (a bool, b bool, c bool);
test=> select (true,false,true)::abc;  row
---------(t,f,t)


I understand that the patch translates t/f only if the output type
has the OID for bool, which is not the case in #2 or #3, but I guess
users would expect #2 to output (1,0) and #3 (1,0,1).


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