Re: Void binary patch

From: rsmogura <rsmogura(at)softperience(dot)eu>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Void binary patch
Date: 2011-02-22 14:22:56
Message-ID: 5f95c1af27faedeca19c741083fc811d@mail.softperience.eu
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:12:23 -0600, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Radosław Smogura
>> <rsmogura(at)softperience(dot)eu> wrote:
>>> Just patch for missing procedures for void send/recv
>>
>> 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.
>
> merlin

Just curious what POD means?

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