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Re:The YAML Document from Hell by singingfish on Thursday January 12, 2023 @07:18AM (#34352412)
I'm nose deep in an Oracle to Postgres conversion at the moment and from that experience, among others, I can absolutely assure you that although booleans are definitely simple they are also most definitely a very sharp edge case.
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Re:The YAML Document from Hell by falcolas on Thursday January 12, 2023 @10:11AM (#34354616)
But who doesn't love the OracleDB tri-state boolean?

/s

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Re:The YAML Document from Hell by int_19h on Thursday January 12, 2023 @04:13PM (#34360321)
Booleans, or NULL specifically?
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Re:The YAML Document from Hell by singingfish on Thursday January 12, 2023 @09:05PM (#34363082)
yes (in oracle - at least the early 21st century version I'm using you have to roll your own boolean-ish - traditionally char(1).
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