Tom Lane-2 wrote
> James Pittman <
> j.pittman@
> > writes:
>> It does not seem possible to be able to cast a boolean to a smallint.
>
> Well, there are also not direct casts provided from boolean to bigint,
> numeric, real, or double precision ;-). I'm not terribly excited about
> this.
So why is there one for Boolean to int?
To the OP, why do you think you want one?
While I haven't used it much converting Boolean to zero/one for use in a
math formula is a known use case though likely one where the difference
between int and smallint would probably be marginalized.
David J.
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