Re: cast bool/int - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Marcin Krawczyk
Subject Re: cast bool/int
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Msg-id 95f6bf9b0903230744r69a67a6dk89ba50f3f97603b1@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: cast bool/int  (Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>)
List pgsql-sql
This:

SELECT true::integer, false::integer

also works on 8.1

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mk

2009/3/23 Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Στις Monday 23 March 2009 09:59:12 ο/η Zdravko Balorda έγραψε:
>
> Hi,
> I need a casting operator from boolean to integer,
> tu put in ALTER TABLE statment after USING.
>

Sorry in the above email i meant smth like
CASE WHEN column='t' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END

however
SELECT 't'::boolean::int;
int4
------
   1
(1 row)

and
SELECT 'f'::boolean::int;
 int4
------
   0
(1 row)

work in 8.3

> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Zdravko
>
>



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