Is there a way to convert a boolean value to text and/or vice versa?

You can
 select 'true'::boolean,
which *seems* to convert a text string to boolean, but
 select 'true'::text::boolean
earns the message
 ERROR:  cannot cast type text to boolean

You can't go the other way either
SELECT true::text
ERROR:  cannot cast type boolean to text

and to_char() doesn't know about booleans.

It's not that difficult to write a fuction to convert boolean to text, but I'm wondering if there's already something that does this?

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Edmund Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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