[Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to>]

Hello hello,

Since the default t/f output for booleans is not very user friendly, 
attached is a patch which enables you to do for example the following:

=# \pset true TRUE
Boolean TRUE display is "TRUE".
=# \pset false FALSE
Boolean FALSE display is "FALSE".
=# select true, false;
   bool | bool
------+-------
   TRUE | FALSE
(1 row)


(For anyone reviewing: I didn't touch the parts of describe.c which do 
this for nullPrint:

   myopt.nullPrint = NULL;

since I thought it was dubious in the first place, and I don't think we 
output booleans in the describe commands.)



.m

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Attachments:

psqltruefalse_v1.patch (text/x-patch, 6.2K) download
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index 212dbfa..2048ba3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -2229,6 +2229,26 @@ lo_import 152801
           </varlistentry>
 
           <varlistentry>
+          <term><literal>true</literal></term>
+          <listitem>
+          <para>
+          Sets the string to be printed in place of a boolean TRUE value.
+          The default is to print a 't' character.
+          </para>
+          </listitem>
+          </varlistentry>
+
+          <varlistentry>
+          <term><literal>false</literal></term>
+          <listitem>
+          <para>
+          Sets the string to be printed in place of a boolean FALSE value.
+          The default is to print an 'f' character.
+          </para>
+          </listitem>
+          </varlistentry>
+
+          <varlistentry>
           <term><literal>null</literal></term>
           <listitem>
           <para>
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/command.c b/src/bin/psql/command.c
index 5163c76..7fadb0a 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/command.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/command.c
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ exec_command(const char *cmd,
 			int			i;
 			static const char *const my_list[] = {
 				"border", "columns", "expanded", "fieldsep", "fieldsep_zero",
-				"footer", "format", "linestyle", "null",
+				"footer", "format", "linestyle", "true", "false", "null",
 				"numericlocale", "pager", "pager_min_lines",
 				"recordsep", "recordsep_zero",
 				"tableattr", "title", "tuples_only",
@@ -2591,6 +2591,26 @@ do_pset(const char *param, const char *value, printQueryOpt *popt, bool quiet)
 		}
 	}
 
+	/* boolean TRUE display */
+	else if (strcmp(param, "true") == 0)
+	{
+		if (value)
+		{
+			free(popt->truePrint);
+			popt->truePrint = pg_strdup(value);
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* boolean FALSE display */
+	else if (strcmp(param, "false") == 0)
+	{
+		if (value)
+		{
+			free(popt->falsePrint);
+			popt->falsePrint = pg_strdup(value);
+		}
+	}
+
 	/* field separator for unaligned text */
 	else if (strcmp(param, "fieldsep") == 0)
 	{
@@ -2782,6 +2802,20 @@ printPsetInfo(const char *param, struct printQueryOpt *popt)
 			   popt->nullPrint ? popt->nullPrint : "");
 	}
 
+	/* show true display */
+	else if (strcmp(param, "true") == 0)
+	{
+		printf(_("Boolean TRUE display is \"%s\".\n"),
+			   popt->truePrint ? popt->truePrint : "t");
+	}
+
+	/* show false display */
+	else if (strcmp(param, "false") == 0)
+	{
+		printf(_("Boolean FALSE display is \"%s\".\n"),
+			   popt->falsePrint ? popt->falsePrint : "f");
+	}
+
 	/* show locale-aware numeric output */
 	else if (strcmp(param, "numericlocale") == 0)
 	{
@@ -2953,6 +2987,14 @@ pset_value_string(const char *param, struct printQueryOpt *popt)
 		return psprintf("%s", _align2string(popt->topt.format));
 	else if (strcmp(param, "linestyle") == 0)
 		return psprintf("%s", get_line_style(&popt->topt)->name);
+	else if (strcmp(param, "true") == 0)
+		return pset_quoted_string(popt->truePrint
+								  ? popt->truePrint
+								  : "t");
+	else if (strcmp(param, "false") == 0)
+		return pset_quoted_string(popt->falsePrint
+								  ? popt->falsePrint
+								  : "f");
 	else if (strcmp(param, "null") == 0)
 		return pset_quoted_string(popt->nullPrint
 								  ? popt->nullPrint
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/help.c b/src/bin/psql/help.c
index 5b63e76..d0bf418 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/help.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/help.c
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ slashUsage(unsigned short int pager)
 	fprintf(output, _("  \\H                     toggle HTML output mode (currently %s)\n"),
 			ON(pset.popt.topt.format == PRINT_HTML));
 	fprintf(output, _("  \\pset [NAME [VALUE]]   set table output option\n"
-					  "                         (NAME := {format|border|expanded|fieldsep|fieldsep_zero|footer|null|\n"
+					  "                         (NAME := {format|border|expanded|fieldsep|fieldsep_zero|footer|true|false|null|\n"
 					  "                         numericlocale|recordsep|recordsep_zero|tuples_only|title|tableattr|pager|\n"
 					  "                         unicode_border_linestyle|unicode_column_linestyle|unicode_header_linestyle})\n"));
 	fprintf(output, _("  \\t [on|off]            show only rows (currently %s)\n"),
@@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ helpVariables(unsigned short int pager)
 	fprintf(output, _("  format             set output format [unaligned, aligned, wrapped, html, asciidoc, ...]\n"));
 	fprintf(output, _("  footer             enable or disable display of the table footer [on, off]\n"));
 	fprintf(output, _("  linestyle          set the border line drawing style [ascii, old-ascii, unicode]\n"));
+	fprintf(output, _("  true               set the string to be prined in place of a TRUE value\n"));
+	fprintf(output, _("  false              set the string to be prined in place of a FALSE value\n"));
 	fprintf(output, _("  null               set the string to be printed in place of a null value\n"));
 	fprintf(output, _("  numericlocale      enable or disable display of a locale-specific character to separate\n"
 					  "                     groups of digits [on, off]\n"));
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/print.c b/src/bin/psql/print.c
index ad4350e..ba5c651 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/print.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/print.c
@@ -3215,6 +3215,13 @@ printQuery(const PGresult *result, const printQueryOpt *opt, FILE *fout, FILE *f
 					cell = format_numeric_locale(cell);
 					mustfree = true;
 				}
+				else if (PQftype(result, c) == BOOLOID)
+				{
+					if (cell[0] == 't' && opt->truePrint)
+						cell = opt->truePrint;
+					else if (cell[0] == 'f' && opt->falsePrint)
+						cell = opt->falsePrint;
+				}
 			}
 
 			translate = (opt->translate_columns && opt->translate_columns[c]);
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/print.h b/src/bin/psql/print.h
index b0b6bf5..7949c18 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/print.h
+++ b/src/bin/psql/print.h
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ typedef struct printQueryOpt
 {
 	printTableOpt topt;			/* the options above */
 	char	   *nullPrint;		/* how to print null entities */
+	char	   *truePrint;		/* how to print TRUE booleans */
+	char	   *falsePrint;		/* how to print FALSE booleans */
 	bool		quote;			/* quote all values as much as possible */
 	char	   *title;			/* override title */
 	char	  **footers;		/* override footer (default is "(xx rows)") */