Re: Casting INT4 to BOOL... - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Casting INT4 to BOOL...
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Msg-id 20041011194349.N32083@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: Casting INT4 to BOOL...  (Sean Chittenden <chitt@speakeasy.net>)
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Re: Casting INT4 to BOOL...
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Sean Chittenden wrote:

> > The patch treats any non-zero value as "true". Is that the behavior we
> > want, or should we only allow "1" as an integer representation of
> > "true"? (I'm not sure myself, I just don't think copying C here is
> > necessarily the best guide.)
>
> I would posit that this is the desired behavior as it's consistent with
> every language I can think of.

However, AFAIK it's inconsitent with the type input function which
supports '1' and '0' but not other integers.


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