setting display format of booleans in psql

Started by Henry Houseover 14 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Henry House
hajhouse@houseag.com

Is there a way to set the display format of boolean values in psql just
as one can set the display of nulls using \pset null <some string>? I
find presentation of true as 't' and false as 'f' rather poor since 't'
and 'f' do not look very different from each other. I'd like to instead
get 'TRUE' or 'FALSE'.

Nothing in the manual page for psql seems helpful.

#2Pavel Stehule
pavel.stehule@gmail.com
In reply to: Henry House (#1)
Re: setting display format of booleans in psql

Hello

there is not any possibility to change boolean output format.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

2011/8/6 Henry House <hajhouse@houseag.com>:

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Is there a way to set the display format of boolean values in psql just
as one can set the display of nulls using \pset null <some string>? I
find presentation of true as 't' and false as 'f' rather poor since 't'
and 'f' do not look very different from each other. I'd like to instead
get 'TRUE' or 'FALSE'.

Nothing in the manual page for psql seems helpful.

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#3Rob Sargent
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In reply to: Pavel Stehule (#2)
Re: setting display format of booleans in psql

Pavel Stehule wrote:

Hello

there is not any possibility to change boolean output format.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

2011/8/6 Henry House <hajhouse@houseag.com>:

Is there a way to set the display format of boolean values in psql just
as one can set the display of nulls using \pset null <some string>? I
find presentation of true as 't' and false as 'f' rather poor since 't'
and 'f' do not look very different from each other. I'd like to instead
get 'TRUE' or 'FALSE'.

Nothing in the manual page for psql seems helpful.

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But I'm sure you could write yourself a (non-volatile?) function which
would wrap your booleans whenever select * is NOT used.

select id, name, bw(isAlien) from individual;

create or replace function bw(boolean b)
returns char as &&

begin;
/ /if b then
return 'F';
else
return 'T';
end;
&&
etc.
return