Re: Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?

IMHO, it leads to more maintenance work to support backward
compatibility. Can we give it a desupport version such as saying,
"it's currently deprecated and will be completely removed in 8.2, 8.3,
...?" That way, supporting the both for the short-term wouldn't be
too wasteful.

( sorry Tom, GMAIL defaults to REPLY not REPLY ALL :( )

2005/10/7, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> >> Also they
> >> don't need to modify
> >> scripts, can't they just write thier own pg_cacnel_backend to
> >> return int
> >> based on the boolean version?
>
> > 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?
>
> regards, tom lane
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