Reading boolean correctly from Postgres by PHP

Question

The main problem of this thread is moved to here about boolean datatype in PHP / Postgres.

The problem is the conversion of t and f to

Answer 1

This isn't a direct answer to the question, but here's an example demonstrating that pg_*() functions do in fact return the postgres boolean true value as the PHP string 't':

[example]$ cat scratch.php 

  array(1) {
    ["true"]=>
    string(1) "t"
  }
}
bool(true)
[example]$