Re: Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 07 October 2005 16:57
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Robert Treat; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?
>
> "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?

Oh no, what have I started!! :-)

Let's just make the change and let the few people affected modify their
scripts, otherwise this is gonna get very messy.

Thankfully I think we've all learnt from this :-)

Regards, Dave.