Re: Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?
Date
Msg-id 200510071135.52058.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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In response to Re: Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
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On Friday 07 October 2005 03:50, Dave Page wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> > Sent: 07 October 2005 02:28
> > To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [HACKERS] Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?
> >
> > 2.  Revert the result type of pg_cancel_backend() to int, but
> > leave the
> >     rest as-is (minimum change to avoid a compatibility break
> > with 8.0).
>
> +1 (I do know people who will need to modify scripts because of this
> change), though I'm obviously not going to win having already scanned
> the entire thread :-)

I'm sympathetic to this, but doesn't it seem worse to have this one function 
return int if all the others return boolean?   Also they don't need to modify 
scripts, can't they just write thier own pg_cacnel_backend to return int 
based on the boolean version?

-- 
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL


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