Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804EC1337B47 for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 09:26:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31359-01 for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 12:26:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gw.wicourts.gov (gwmta.wicourts.gov [165.219.244.99]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B96841337B93 for ; Wed, 4 May 2011 09:26:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from Courts-MTA by gw.wicourts.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 04 May 2011 07:26:37 -0500 Message-Id: <4DC0FFA5020000250003D243@gw.wicourts.gov> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.1 Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 07:26:29 -0500 From: "Kevin Grittner" To: , Cc: Subject: Re: boolean states Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201105/6 X-Sequence-Number: 6681 Jack Douglas wrote: > There are two kinds of people on this earth, those who understand > boolean arithmatic and those who don't. I'm not one of them. Hmmm... From that, I don't know if you do. Which do I record in the understands_boolean column of the database record for you? Dang, I knew I should have had *two* flags: known_to_understand_boolean and known_to_not_understand_boolean. That would have been much simpler than allowing NULL for UNKNOWN.... -Kevin "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." -Yogi Berra