BOOLEAN data type
Informix®
Informix supports the BOOLEAN
data type, which can store 't' or 'f'
values.
BOOLEAN
data type in a different way: A
BOOLEAN
variable stores integer values 1
or 0
(for TRUE
or FALSE
). This type is designed to hold the result of a
boolean expression.ORACLE
Oracle does not implement a native BOOLEAN
type in SQL types.
However, a BOOLEAN
type exists in the PL/SQL language.
Solution
The Oracle database interface converts the BOOLEAN
type to
CHAR(1)
columns and stores '1'
or '0'
values in
the column.
The
BOOLEAN
type translation can be controlled with the
following FGLPROFILE
entry:dbi.database.dsname.ifxemul.datatype.boolean = {
true |
false }
For
more details see IBM Informix emulation parameters in FGLPROFILE.