On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 08:54:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Garo Hussenjian <garo@xapnet.com> writes:
> > Also, is it really the case that the adapters (JDBC, DBI, others) actually
> > process database output?
>
> Well, maybe they don't. If they don't then the compatibility issue
> largely goes away, I think.
They do. DBI at least converts t/f into 1/0 which confused the hell out of
me the first time I saw it. I was using eq "t" and eq "f" in my if
statements, and the response was matching neither.
It also returns undef for fields with NULL where Pg returned "".
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.