I am, but we can't just go making up our own version of true and false,
what this is referring to is storing a true/false into an integer and
interpreting it as such from the getBoolean()/setBoolean() methods
DAve
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 12:20, scott.marlowe wrote:
> Sorry, since this is the jdbc list I kinda assumed you were talking about
> how jdbc was storing true and false...
>
> On 4 Feb 2004, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> > Scott,
> >
> > This is a backend thing, 'f' 't' are boolean values for the backend, we
> > don't attempt to parse and change things.
> >
> > Dave
> > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:36, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > > On 3 Feb 2004, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Kris,
> > > >
> > > > I also have a few more,
> > > >
> > > > one to change the behaviour for handling booleans, from inserting 't',
> > > > 'f' to inserting '1', and '0'
> > > >
> > > > I think one way to deal with this on a non-connection basis is to use
> > > > System properties, this won't work for the schema search path, but would
> > > > work for most others.
> > > >
> > > > How do the other drivers handle this?
> > >
> > > Why not store TRUE and FALSE with no ticks. Like DEFAULT and NULL they're
> > > keywords that mean the exact thing, not an internal representation that
> > > might change over time.
> > >
> > > insert into table1 (tf) values (TRUE);
> > >
> >
>
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