Re: Add \pset options for boolean value display - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM David G. Johnston <
> david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's \pset null for boolean values

> v1, Ready aside from bike-shedding the name.

Do we really want this?  It's the sort of thing that has a strong
potential to break anything that reads psql output --- and I'd
urge you to think that human consumers of psql output may well
be the minority.  There's an awful lot of scripts out there.

I concede that \pset null hasn't had a huge amount of pushback,
but that doesn't mean that making boolean output unpredictable
will be cost-free.  And the costs won't be paid by you (or me),
but by people who didn't ask for it.

            regards, tom lane