Re: Add Boolean node

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add Boolean node
Date: 2021-12-27 10:18:45
Message-ID: CAOBaU_Y0SDm_6=4=VepBsxLo1jogzWby5Jq6CJ1HxAGaW2NU-w@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 5:09 PM Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> po 27. 12. 2021 v 10:02 odesílatel Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> napsal:
>>
>> This patch adds a new node type Boolean, to go alongside the "value"
>> nodes Integer, Float, String, etc. This seems appropriate given that
>> Boolean values are a fundamental part of the system and are used a lot.
>>
>> Before, SQL-level Boolean constants were represented by a string with
>> a cast, and internal Boolean values in DDL commands were usually
>> represented by Integer nodes. This takes the place of both of these
>> uses, making the intent clearer and having some amount of type safety.
>
> +1

+1 too, looks like a good improvement. The patch looks good to me,
although it's missing comment updates for at least nodeTokenType() and
nodeRead().

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