From: | Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Binary data type with other output method |
Date: | 2007-12-27 15:19:09 |
Message-ID: | 20071227161909.0e4ab24e@iridium.wars-nicht.de |
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:52:15 -0500 Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:20:59 -0500 Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> > This PHP driver is in use since years, do you really expect they will
> > fix this bug and make thousands of applications fail? Everyone like
> > Mark who posted an example earlier would have to change the PHP code
> > if the variable is now a true/false boolean instead a 't'/'f' string.
> > No, i don't expect a bugfix here. Newer drivers like PDO seems to
> > behave correct but this will not help if you cannot use this driver.
>
> I don't see why it couldn't be switchable behaviour, just as it is in
> DBD::Pg.
Maybe because the PHP folks don't care so much? I don't know. Already
discussed this one on IRC but there's not so much love for fixing this
issue, as far as i can see.
Either i got: "MySQL does this right in returning 0/1, so we don't
care" or i got "other drivers fixed this problem, use this one".
> > i considered this one but this would only bring 0/1 as input, not as
> > output values, which is what i want.
>
> er, what? This domain would have input and output values of 0/1.
Yes, but i will loose 't', 'true', 'f' and 'false', the usual input
values in PostgreSQL beside '0' and '1'. It's not that the people don't
use true/false, they use this a lot. But they expect boolean variable
in PHP working like a bolean column in PG ... without casts, without
extra workarounds in the code.
Kind regards
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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
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