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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: boolean in C
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In response to Re: boolean in C  (Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>)
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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl> writes:
> oh, another thing.
> stdbool is C99 standard feature.

We are still targeting C89, not C99.

Another reason not to depend on stdbool is that, so far as I can see,
the standard does not promise that type _Bool has size = 1 byte.
We have to have that because of on-disk compatibility requirements.
        regards, tom lane

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