Re: Remove MsgType type

> On Dec 22, 2025, at 16:46, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>
> Presumably, the C type MsgType was meant to hold the protocol message type in the pre-version-3 era, but this was
neverfully developed even then, and the name is pretty confusing nowadays.  It has only one vestigial use for cancel
requeststhat we can get rid of.  Since a cancel request is indicated by a special protocol version number, we can use
theProtocolVersion type, which MsgType was based on.  (If this is also found confusing, we could also use uint32
directly.)
> <0001-Remove-MsgType-type.patch>

LGTM. I searched over the source tree, MsgType had only a single usage before the patch, so it makes sense to remove
it.

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