From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko@joh.to>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: psql: add \pset true/false
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 01:32:37 +0100
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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.
.m
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