Re: getting y/n or 1/0 from bool fields

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 16:01, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> Some of our development software is not really "PostgreSQL aware" in
> that it expects bool values to be y/n (ala MS Access) or 1/0.  However
> it seems that Postgres returns t/f.
>
> Does anyone know a way to get Postgres to return one of the above
> (preferably, 1/0) for boolean values?
>
> Ideally, it would be somewhat of a transparent feature, so that a
> "SELECT * FROM table;" would have all bool values in the format above.
>
> Any suggestions greatly apreciated,

My JSP applications don't care. The column is y/n type and y = t and n =
f. Where the conversion takes place I do not know?

Cheers

Tony Grant

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