| From: | imad <immaad(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Binary data type with other output method |
| Date: | 2007-12-25 17:12:23 |
| Message-ID: | 1f30b80c0712250912q178e725eha365f9bc6cd56b44@mail.gmail.com |
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If you reduce your code you will have to leverage the bool data type.
Why dont you provide a cast, I dont see an overhead in typbyval datatypes.
On Dec 25, 2007 9:10 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
>
> Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > i'm in the need to create a boolean datatype which returns an integer
> > instead of the usual 't'/'f'. Before anyone starts to point me at
> > casts: it's a lot overhead to cast some hundred occurances beside the
> > source of trouble, if you forget one.
> >
> >
> >
> Do you really need a new datatype or just to change the output behaviour
> of the inbuilt type? That should be quite easy to do in just a few lines
> of code.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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--Imad
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