"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.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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