23 Aug 2006 haruspex   » (Journeyer)

johnnyb, I can perhaps explain the true/false one, having investigated this recently. The database client libs typically don't report a BOOLEAN column as a Boolean type to the client. It will be reported as TINYINT 0/1 (MySQL), CHAR(1) 't'/'f' (PgSQL), or perhaps other things. This can make it difficult to write a portable schema.

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