Re: [GENERAL] Checkboxes on MSAccess and PostgreSQL

From: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn(at)insightdist(dot)com>
To: Valerio Santinelli <tanis(at)mediacom(dot)it>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Checkboxes on MSAccess and PostgreSQL
Date: 1999-01-18 17:20:25
Message-ID: 36A36D59.D6064F6A@insightdist.com
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Valerio Santinelli wrote:

> First of all.. thanks to everybody for helping me out witht the
> "sequence" stuff. :)
>
> I've got another questions for you dudes. When using a CheckBox in a
> Form written in MSAccess that's related to a table in a
> PostgreSQL database, if I simply turn its status from ON to OFF it works
> fine, while if i'm doing the opposite it won't work.
>
> I noticed that when exporting the table from MSAccess to PostgreSQL the
> "yes/no" fields all became char(1) and not boolean.. maybe this could be
> the problem.
>
> I also noticed from the logs that when updating the status from ON to
> OFF the UPDATE goes out with something like field_name='0'
> I'm not sure it should use the "'" since it's more like a numerical, no
> ?
>

Try setting the Advanced Driver Option "Bools as Char" to disabled. This
will cause the export to use a Boolean field in postgres.

Byron

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