On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:08 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:56:50AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > > No, because you can't overload based purely on return type. I suppose
> > > they could write it to take an int8 pid or something, but that's a hack.
> >
> > Well, how many people want to vote for Andreas' suggestion of having
> > both
> >
> > int pg_cancel_backend(int)
> > bool pg_backend_cancel(int)
> >
> > with the former deprecated but still there for backward compatibility?
>
> +1
I would vote for this "if" we deprecate the old one and say that it will
be removed for 8.2.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
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