Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What problem does this fix?
> void returning functions may not be called when binary protocol is
> requested currently. this is annoying: some drivers that wrap libpq
> or the protocol directly use the binary mode exclusively and this
> causes headaches for them. put another way, 'void' is the only POD
> type missing send/recv.
Yeah, this has been discussed before.
Even though this patch is far past the CF deadline, I'm a bit tempted to
push it into 9.1 anyway, just so we can check off that problem.
regards, tom lane
