Re: Is there a way to return "true"/"false" string for boolean type?

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:11 AM, ChoonSoo Park <luispark(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello Gurus,
>
> I have several tables with lots of boolean columns.
> When I run select query for the tables, I always get 't' or 'f' for
> boolean types.
>
> Is there a way to return 'true' or 'false' string for boolean type except
> using CASE WHEN ... clause?
> I mean global postgres configuration setting to return 'true'/'false'
> instead of t/f.
>

Question for others..

hstore(record) doesn't seem to cast the rows to text using the normal text
cast, right? Why is that?

If I have a table with a boolean column and I call hstore(table), I see
't', not 'true'.

But true::text is 'true' and false::text is 'false'.