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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE ( smallinto -> boolean ) ...
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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> You could do something like
> 
> ... type boolean using case when field1=0 then false else true end;

Or you could save typing and just use "USING field1<>0"

Odd that everyone did a CASE for that.


-- 
greg