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Re: Booleans - Why in Postgres and not in Oracle or Mysql? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Booleans - Why in Postgres and not in Oracle or Mysql?
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Msg-id 200505060810.15088.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Booleans - Why in Postgres and not in Oracle or Mysql?  (CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com>)
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CSN wrote:
> I like Postgres's boolean type - why do you suppose
> neither Mysql nor Oracle has bothered to implement it?
> Booleans are in the SQL-99 spec.

Fear of breaking old applications

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Peter Eisentraut
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