Re: Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?
Date: 2005-10-07 17:06:34
Message-ID: 20051007140626.L1477@ganymede.hub.org
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 12:08 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:56:50AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>>> No, because you can't overload based purely on return type. I suppose
>>>> they could write it to take an int8 pid or something, but that's a hack.
>>>
>>> Well, how many people want to vote for Andreas' suggestion of having
>>> both
>>>
>>> int pg_cancel_backend(int)
>>> bool pg_backend_cancel(int)
>>>
>>> with the former deprecated but still there for backward compatibility?
>>
>> +1
>
> I would vote for this "if" we deprecate the old one and say that it will
> be removed for 8.2.

Agreed 100% ...

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