Re: psql: add \pset true/false

On 12 Nov 2015, at 14:21, Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 at 00:51 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

The really key argument that hasn't been addressed here is why does such
a behavior belong in psql, rather than elsewhere?  Surely legibility
problems aren't unique to psql users.  Moreover, there are exactly
parallel facilities for other datatypes on the server side: think
DateStyle or bytea_output.  So if you were trying to follow precedent
rather than invent a kluge, you'd have submitted a patch to create a GUC
that changes the output of boolout().

I find Tom's analogy to datestyle and bytea_output convincing.

+1 for a GUC that changes the behaviour of boolout.