You are right. I typed the message in hurry before I left home this morning. It 
is the boolean type. Thanks for your suggestion. The NULL value may not work 
for jdbc. On the application level, a fixed set of constants is used to 
represent the three status, which are converted into an integer. 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Klaver" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:45:21 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] How to convert a binary filed to an integer field?

On 08/25/2010 12:29 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I have an application in the product. Now, one status field needs to have 
> three statuses instead of two. How to make a such change in PostgreSQL?
>

I am going to assume that by binary you mean boolean. If so it already 
has three states NULL,True,False.

-- 
Adrian Klaver
[email protected]

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