Re: boolean 't' 'f' vs. '1' '0' - perl question

With each successive release of DBD::Pg, you'll have
to go modify the module again...

Wouldn't it make more sense to modify your code to use
1/0 instead?

MT

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> thanks, this works fine for me ;-)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Haworth" <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>
> To: "Henrik Steffen" <steffen@city-map.de>;
> <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 4:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] boolean 't' 'f' vs. '1' '0' -
> perl question
>
>
> > On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 15:18:08 +0100, Henrik Steffen
> wrote:
> > > I am just trying to (finally) upgrade from Pg.pm
> to
> > > DBI (DBD::Pg) ...
> > >
> > > Until today, Pg.pm delivered a 't' or a 'f' for
> > > true or false boolean values.
> > >
> > > Since the upgrade, DBI delivers a '1' or a '0'.
> > >
> > > Question: Does anyone know if there's possibly a
> > > parameter to set to tell DBI to deliver 't' and
> 'f'
> > > instead of '1' and '0' ?
> >
> > Not in the current version. It looks like it
> should be easy enough to
> hack,
> > though. Just remove lines 1360-1362 of dbdimp.c:
> >
> >             if (16 == type) {
> >                *val = (*val == 'f') ? '0' : '1';
> /* bool: translate
> postgres into perl */
> >             }
> >
> > This will probably mean that tests will fail, but
> looks harmless enough
> > otherwise.
> >
> >
> > --
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