From: | Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj> |
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To: | Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Casting Integer to Boolean in assignment |
Date: | 2019-01-24 13:27:00 |
Message-ID: | CAEzk6ff+5w_LUtanxoF8Q3up+_im4_97co=CAx=681k_KJUpiw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 12:17, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> Geoff Winkless schrieb am 24.01.2019 um 12:45:
> > My own opinion is that non-0 should implicitly cast as true and 0
> > should cast as false.
>
> I strongly disagree - that would mimic MySQL's idiosyncrasies and would make such a query valid:
Feel free. I said it's my own opinion and gave a way for someone who
agrees with me to do the same as I do.
If your objection is that someone can write a stupid query and it
might go wrong, there are a million other things that should be
addressed before implicit int::bool casts.
Geoff
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