Folks:
I had assumed that the BOOL column type was a tru boolean. That is, I
wrote some functions on the understand that, given table def:
CREATE TABLE order_details (order_detail_id SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,detail_id INT4 NOT NULL,order_usq INT4 NOT
NULL,detail_requiredBOOL DEFAULT FALSE );
That the following query:
SELECT detail_id FROM order_detials
WHERE order_usq = 7703 AND detail_required;
... should be equivalent to:
SELECT detail_id FROM order_detials
WHERE order_usq = 7703 AND detail_required = TRUE;
However, in testing (7.1 RC2), the query turned out to mean this:
SELECT detail_id FROM order_detials
WHERE order_usq = 7703 AND detail_required IS NOT NULL;
... throwing off a lot of my results until I figured it out.
Can someone explain this to me? I thought the whole point of a BOOL
data type was that it could be treated as a Boolean value, and used for
testing and comparison without and "= TRUE" or "= FALSE". What's going
on here?
-Josh
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