Re: Data type "indicator" - What about boolean?

Posted by Andrew Sykes on Jul 07, 2006; 9:40am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Data-type-indicator-What-about-boolean-tp140544p140546.html

Fabian,

This would mean "parsing" every indicator field.

Not good for performance!

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 10:38 +0200, Fabian Gorsler wrote:
> Oh, excuse me, I've mixed up data types in Oracle. In Oracle the RDBMS
> itself has noch BOOLEAN, just PL/SQL supports it.
>
> But anyway: Why is there no explicit data type fo just logical
> data with an abstraction to something like "true" and "false"? Perhaps
> NUMBER(1) could be used even on different RDBMS which don't support
> BOOLEAN.
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