Re: boolean states

From: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Jack Douglas <jack(at)douglastechnology(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: boolean states
Date: 2011-05-02 22:18:27
Message-ID: BANLkTikqdXCLeMf-Wjmh=zUz-bev3G+pAA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Jack Douglas
<jack(at)douglastechnology(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>
> This sounds like an oxymoron to me. Perhaps that sentence should be changed
> to:
>
>        The boolean type can have one of three states: "true" or "false" and
> "unknown".

if my boolean arithmetic is not wrong the above expression is bad.
better expressed is: "true", "false" or "unknown"...

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