On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:56 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "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?
I could vote for:
bool pg_query_cancel(int)
backend_cancel or cancel_backend sounds like it should terminate the
entire backend like kill -TERM would do.
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