Re: PGRES_POLLING_ACTIVE is unused...

This change will be made to the poll patch:

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(at)gnu(dot)org> writes:
> > ...any reason why it is there at all?
>
> Good question. Some digging in CVS shows that it was unused even in the
> patch that introduced it, and never has been used in any release since.
> So it does seem like useless complication.
>
> However, I think it'd be unwise to remove the constant from libpq-fe.h,
> because that would break the application of any poor sod who believed
> the documentation and wrote code that actually checks for
> PGRES_POLLING_ACTIVE.
>
> I'd be inclined to remove it from the documentation and the library
> innards, but leave something like this in libpq-fe.h:
>
> PGRES_POLLING_ACTIVE /* unused; keep for awhile for
> * backwards compatibility */
>
>
> regards, tom lane
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