Re: Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?

"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