From: Warren Young
Date: June 1 2005 11:26am
Subject: Re: Wishlist item: Automatic conversion from ColData to bool
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Byrial Jensen wrote:

> I often store booleans (MySQL type BOOL, alias for TINYINT(1)). So it 
> would be very nice to have an automatic conversion from ColData to bool 

Unless I'm greatly mistaken, this would be a pretty trivial thing to 
patch; 3 lines in coldata.h, probably.  Congratulations, you're 
volunteered.  :)