*Description* The PHP function odbc_fetch_array returns uninitialized values for PostgreSQL boolean values. On older systems, this function returned '1' for true and '0' for false values. On our 64 bit system, the boolean values appear to be uninitialized data. *Additional information* Increasing buffer size in php_odbc.c (odbc.so) in function odbc_bindcols, just prior to call to SQLBindCol makes problem stop exhibiting. SQLColAttributes(...,SQL_COLUMN_TYPE,...) returns type of SQL_VARCHAR on system with problem, SQL_CHAR on system where code works as expected. SQLColAttributes is deprecated (shouldn't matter, though) *Recreation steps:* // Create table/data in PostgreSQL DROP TABLE IF EXISTS public.persons; create table public.persons (id int, name varchar(255), switch_sw boolean); insert into public.persons values (0, 'smith', true); insert into public.persons values (1, 'jones', false); insert into public.persons values (2, 'bailey', true); insert into public.persons values (3, 'johnson', false); // Test script <?php if(!($conn = odbc_connect("..." , "..." , "..."))) die("odbc_connect failed\n"); if(!($rows = odbc_exec($conn, "select * from persons;"))) die("odbc_exec failed\n"); for(;;) { if (!($row = odbc_fetch_array ($rows))) break; print_r($row); } odbc_close($conn); ?> *Actual output* Array ( [id] => 0 [name] => smith [switch_sw] => . // some unreadable binary content ) . . . *Expected Output* Array ( [id] => 0 [name] => smith [switch_sw] => 1 ) . . . *Software levels* kernel - Linux C921189 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64 . . . GNU/Linux ODBC - libodbc.so.1 (cannot exactly determine version) PostgreSQL - 9.3.0 PHP - 5.6.7 This system is little endian