Re: psql: add \pset true/false

On 10/28/15 11:52 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> -0 on this concept from me.  I'm not going to vigorously oppose it, but:
>
> 1. You can always do it in the query if you really want it.

True, but not always practical.

> 2. If you're the sort of person liable to be confused by t/f, you
> probably aren't in the target audience for psql anyway.

Really?  The difference between t/f is that the vertical squiggle is 
flipped, THAT'S IT.  Consider:

t t f f f
f t f t f

Saying that I'm not target audience for not being able to see WTF is 
going on above I find offending.

> 3. I really don't want to end up with a bunch of features of this type
> for a variety of different data types.

Fine.  Then let's not add it for a different variety of data types.  But 
boolean is quite essential and it has a really small number of valid 
output values.


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