Is there any technique to do in postgresql 9.3 so that it start returning 1 and 0 instead of “t” and “f” for boolean type

Question

Actually i am migrating my ms sql server into postgresql 9.3 and we were using int data type to store 1 and 0 for boolean values but in postgresql9.3 it is not possible. what di

Answer 1

if the column if of the boolean type then cast it to integer to compare to integer:

select the_boolean_column::int = 1;

to insert a boolean value as smallint cast it to integer fisrt

insert into t (integer_column) values (boolean_value::int::smallint)

to make the boolean_column always return integer create a view

create view v as
select boolean_column::int as integer_column
from t

When you query a boolean column it does not return 't' or 'f'. It returns a boolean value, true or false or null. The string representation of the value is up to the client, hence the 't'.