boolean type cast

Started by Taiki Yamaguchiover 19 years ago2 messagesdocs
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#1Taiki Yamaguchi
yamaguti@sra.co.jp

Hi,

I found a minor glitch in the documentation for 8.1 where it talks about
boolean data type.

Here is what the documentation says:

"Tip: Values of the boolean type cannot be cast directly to other types
(e.g., CAST (boolval AS integer) does not work)."

It is true for pre-8.1. As for 8.1, however, boolean type cast works:

=# select true::int;
int4
------
1
(1 row)

regards,

--
Taiki Yamaguchi

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Taiki Yamaguchi (#1)
Re: boolean type cast

Taiki Yamaguchi <yamaguti@sra.co.jp> writes:

I found a minor glitch in the documentation for 8.1 where it talks about
boolean data type.

Yeah, looks like we missed updating that bit :-(

I'm tempted to just delete the whole <tip>. Is there a reason to insert
some other text in its place? If so, what to say?

regards, tom lane