Re: Inserting boolean types as an alias?

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inserting boolean types as an alias?
Date: 2013-12-02 23:59:09
Message-ID: 529D1ECD.2070504@hogranch.com
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On 12/2/2013 3:46 PM, Nick wrote:
> Hello I am new to this site and also a student. I am working on an assignment
> and was wondering if there is a way to make an alias for a boolean? For
> example when I am making a table called club_games and it must contain the
> memberID, gameID, count, and status as column fields. When I enter the data
> for status I want it to say either "unavailable" for false and "available"
> for true. but I don't know how to do that.

you could use an enum, or you could use a case statement on your query,
like,

SELECT memberID, gameID, hardwareID, count, case when status then 'available' else 'unavailable' end FROM club_Games

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john r pierce 37N 122W
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