Re: CancelRequest(F) documentation. - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Jelte Fennema-Nio
Subject Re: CancelRequest(F) documentation.
Date
Msg-id DDH3SILR7S7U.3A5Z7VNFCJJJA@jeltef.nl
Whole thread Raw
In response to CancelRequest(F) documentation.  (Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: CancelRequest(F) documentation.
List pgsql-docs
On Tue Oct 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM CEST, Dmitry Igrishin wrote:
> CancelRequest(F) documentation at
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/protocol-message-formats.html#PROTOCOL-MESSAGE-FORMATS-CANCELREQUEST
> seems to be inconsistent for protocol 3.2. It is stated here that the
> length of the message is always 16 bytes (specified as Int32(16)),
> however the maximum message length actually depends on the secret key
> length (which can be up to 256 bytes, as also stated in the
> documentation.)

Good catch. Attached is a patch that fixes this.

Attachment

pgsql-docs by date:

Previous
From: Daniel Gustafsson
Date:
Subject: Re: Documentation improvement patch
Next
From: Oleg
Date:
Subject: Re: Documentation improvement patch