Re: boolean in C

Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl> writes:
> On 16 Jul 2009, at 14:53, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> the standard does not promise that type _Bool has size = 1 byte.
>>>> We have to have that because of on-disk compatibility requirements.

>>> I think the latter is easily fixable, or forceable to be one byte.

>> How do you plan to do that?

> by casting it to 1 byte type such as char ?

That's hardly going to improve readability for anyone. Also, it will
flat out not work for the catalog struct declarations. When we say
"bool relhasindex;" the compiler had better think that that's a
one-byte field.

> And it is pretty annoying, when your product also has its own BOOLean
> defined...

IOW you're not using stdbool either?

regards, tom lane