From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-06-20T01:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] sql-serialize 0.0.3


On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 11:45 AM, Anders Borch wrote:

> [snip]

> there are a number of data types that I could not easily port to sql.
> Booleans for instance, mysql haven't really got a boolean datatype, but
> dbd_mysql returns the strings "1" or "0" in stead of true and false, so
> I couldn't store booleans as columns in the same table as the rest of
> the attributes. I want, like you, to have integers, floats and strings
> as columns in a table representing a class. Files, booleans, Exceptions
> (and anything derived from Exception), and Bignums are some of the
> datatypes I had to treat differently. I put them in separate tables 
> with
> references to the class table.
> [snip]

postgresql has a boolean datatype and supports user-defined datatypes, 
if you're not locked in to mysql for your application.

Regards,

Mark