| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Radosław Smogura <rsmogura(at)softperience(dot)eu>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Void binary patch |
| Date: | 2011-02-22 15:15:07 |
| Message-ID: | 29479.1298387707@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> What problem does this fix?
> void returning functions may not be called when binary protocol is
> requested currently. this is annoying: some drivers that wrap libpq
> or the protocol directly use the binary mode exclusively and this
> causes headaches for them. put another way, 'void' is the only POD
> type missing send/recv.
Yeah, this has been discussed before.
Even though this patch is far past the CF deadline, I'm a bit tempted to
push it into 9.1 anyway, just so we can check off that problem.
regards, tom lane
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