| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | wgyumg(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #15836: Casting 'of' to boolean type should throw an invalid input syntax |
| Date: | 2019-06-13 02:57:28 |
| Message-ID: | 5448.1560394648@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 2:37 PM PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> wrote:
>> Converting 'of' to a boolean type should throw an invalid input syntax.
> At this point raising a syntax error is undesirable, but the documentation
> should be modified to match the source code, which does say:
> src/utils/adt/bool.c
> * Try to interpret value as boolean value. Valid values are: true,
> * false, yes, no, on, off, 1, 0; as well as unique prefixes thereof.
> The unique prefix part needs to make it to user-facing documentation.
Agreed, the docs are misleading here. I pushed something to try to
make it better:
regards, tom lane
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