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[pgjdbc/pgjdbc] issue #367: BOOLEAN field treated as BIT
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* [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] issue #367: BOOLEAN field treated as BIT
@ 2015-09-07 11:43  "gtors (@gtors)" <[email protected]>
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From: gtors (@gtors) @ 2015-09-07 11:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgjdbc/pgjdbc <[email protected]>

This issue cause bugs in third-party libraries. For example: [stackoverflow question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26298295/unneccessary-database-changeset-related-to-boolean-afte...)

The root of the evil consists in [TypeInfoCache.java#L87](https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/blob/master/org/postgresql/jdbc2/TypeInfoCache.java#L87)

I know it was for backward compatibility, but please make it configurable at least.


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* Re: [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] issue #367: BOOLEAN field treated as BIT
@ 2015-09-07 21:03  "davecramer (@davecramer)" <[email protected]>
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From: davecramer (@davecramer) @ 2015-09-07 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgjdbc/pgjdbc <[email protected]>

I'm looking at when this was changed and AFAICT it hasn't. This has been like this for a while ?Certainly before hibernate changed their code last


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* Re: [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] issue #367: BOOLEAN field treated as BIT
@ 2018-11-07 13:12  "chris-baynes (@chris-baynes)" <[email protected]>
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From: chris-baynes (@chris-baynes) @ 2018-11-07 13:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgjdbc/pgjdbc <[email protected]>

I've recently encountered this problem when querying boolean columns. 
There's some logic in our code that says if the column type is `bit` (which is what the driver reports for boolean cols) then get the value using `getByte`. This throws an exception when the underlying column is actually a boolean: 
```
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Bad value for type byte : f
```
It works as expected if the column is really `bit`.
Is there anything that can be done on the driver side? Or does this have to remain as is due to backwards compatibility?

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* Re: [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] issue #367: BOOLEAN field treated as BIT
@ 2018-11-07 13:25  "davecramer (@davecramer)" <[email protected]>
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From: davecramer (@davecramer) @ 2018-11-07 13:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgjdbc/pgjdbc <[email protected]>

@chris-baynes 

Someone is always on the wrong side of an opinion... I'm loathe to change it permanently but could be convinced to make it configurable.

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* Re: [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] issue #367: BOOLEAN field treated as BIT
@ 2023-01-04 17:49  "vintop95 (@vintop95)" <[email protected]>
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From: vintop95 (@vintop95) @ 2023-01-04 17:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
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A framework I'm working on infers the type of a column from a select query with jdbc, and this problem makes it impossible for boolean types to be inferred correctly.

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* Re: [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] issue #367: BOOLEAN field treated as BIT
@ 2023-01-05 13:56  "davecramer (@davecramer)" <[email protected]>
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From: davecramer (@davecramer) @ 2023-01-05 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
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a PR would be useful here 

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* Re: [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] issue #367: BOOLEAN field treated as BIT
@ 2025-09-12 20:53  "vwassan (@vwassan)" <[email protected]>
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From: vwassan (@vwassan) @ 2025-09-12 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> a PR would be useful here

@davecramer Could you take a look at https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/3796? 

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* Re: [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] issue #367: BOOLEAN field treated as BIT
@ 2025-09-12 21:45  "davecramer (@davecramer)" <[email protected]>
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From: davecramer (@davecramer) @ 2025-09-12 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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already did

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