> >>Having spent days, no, weeks deciding on that name on list I do not
> >>want to see it change this late, especially as we'll now need to go
> >>and update pgAdmin again!
>
> Fortunately, pgAdmin doesn't use that function, but only the
> basic pg_relation_size(). Phew!
Good for you :-)
> > Also, the change to pg_cancel_backend breaks backwards compatibility
> > with 8.0, which is a whole lot worse than breaking it with
> 8.1-beta1.
>
> Unfortunately, core doesn't see this as backward compatibility break,
> instead it's regarded as adjustment of a new function.
> Anything that's not in core isn't worth a single thought....
This function has been in core since 8.0. The other functions were new
(to core that is, imported from external module), but this one was in
the main backend already.
//Magnus
