BOOL

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The BOOL data type stores a Boolean value of false or true.

Aliases

In CockroachDB, BOOLEAN is an alias for BOOL.

Syntax

There are two predefined named constants for BOOL: TRUE and FALSE (the names are case-insensitive).

Alternately, a boolean value can be obtained by coercing a numeric value: zero is coerced to FALSE, and any non-zero value to TRUE.

• CAST(0 AS BOOL) (false)
• CAST(123 AS BOOL) (true)

Size

A BOOL value is 1 byte in width, but the total storage size is likely to be larger due to CockroachDB metadata.

Examples

> CREATE TABLE bool (a INT PRIMARY KEY, b BOOL, c BOOLEAN);

> SHOW COLUMNS FROM bool;

+-------+------+-------+---------+
| Field | Type | Null  | Default |
+-------+------+-------+---------+
| a     | INT  | false | NULL    |
| b     | BOOL | true  | NULL    |
| c     | BOOL | true  | NULL    |
+-------+------+-------+---------+

> INSERT INTO bool VALUES (12345, true, CAST(0 AS BOOL));

> SELECT * FROM bool;

+-------+------+-------+
|   a   |  b   |   c   |
+-------+------+-------+
| 12345 | true | false |
+-------+------+-------+

Supported Casting & Conversion

BOOL values can be cast to any of the following data types:

See Also

Data Types

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