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Re: Add \pset options for boolean value display

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> — 2025-10-21T02:48:04Z

On Monday, October 20, 2025, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Monday, October 20, 2025, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The other thing I am thinking is that, with this patch, users are allowed
>> to display arbitrary strings for true/false, if a user mistakenly set
>> display_true to f and display_false to t, which will load to
>> misunderstanding.
>>
>
> Sympathetic to the concern but opposed to taking on such responsibility.
> They could probably modify their own query to do that if they really wanted
> to fool someone and I’m having trouble accepting this happening by
> accident.  Do we test for yes/no; oui/non (i.e., foreign language choices);
> checkmark/X?
>
>
Actually, preventing t/f makes sense to me.  Prevents a “hacker” from
messing with the default outputs in a hard-to-identify manner.  Any other
value would point to pset being used.

David J.