Re: PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist - Mailing list pgsql-general

rlee0001 wrote:

> 2.
> The ability to typecast from boolean to other datatypes. For example:
>         false::varchar
> ...would return varchar 'false' while:

Why should it return 'false'?  If anything, it seems to me it should do
the same as this:

   # select false;
    bool
   ------
    f
   (1 row)

That is, false::varchar => 'f'.

- John D. Burger
   MITRE