Re: An amusing MySQL weakness--not! - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Achilleas Mantzios
Subject Re: An amusing MySQL weakness--not!
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Msg-id 201106271012.51395.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com
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In response to Re: An amusing MySQL weakness--not!  (Vincent Veyron <vv.lists@wanadoo.fr>)
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Στις Sunday 26 June 2011 17:11:06 ο/η Vincent Veyron έγραψε:
> Le dimanche 26 juin 2011 � 00:05 -0700, Darren Duncan a �crit :
> > Michael Nolan wrote:
>
> > Having real BOOLEAN is just one of the reasons I like Postgres the most.
> >
>
> Would you mind giving an example of where a boolean field would be a win
> over an integer one?
>
> I'm asking this because I frequently wonder what is best for my use; I
> normally query postgres via Perl modules, which don't care about boolean
> (the driver converts t/f to 0/1), but I like to tune my fields properly.

Alright, but in other enterprise-level platforms, like java, there is a boolean data type and a Boolean class wrapper.

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