Re: Booleans - Why in Postgres and not in Oracle or Mysql?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Booleans - Why in Postgres and not in Oracle or Mysql?
Date: 2005-05-06 06:10:14
Message-ID: 200505060810.15088.peter_e@gmx.net
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CSN wrote:
> I like Postgres's boolean type - why do you suppose
> neither Mysql nor Oracle has bothered to implement it?
> Booleans are in the SQL-99 spec.

Fear of breaking old applications

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Peter Eisentraut
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