On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 04:09:44PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> - Patch 1 replaces all the char's with PqMsg's
Thanks. I'll look into committing this one in the near future.
> - Patch 2 makes PqMsg an enum. This ensures that the problem will not
> appear again in the future and also gives us a bit more type-safety.
This was briefly brought up in the discussion that ultimately led to
protocol.h [0]. I don't have a particularly strong opinion on the matter,
but I will note that protocol.h was intended to be easily usable in
third-party code, and changing it from characters to an enum from v17 to
v18 might cause some extra code churn.
[0] https://postgr.es/m/20230807091044.jjgsl2rgheazaung%40alvherre.pgsql
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nathan