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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add non-blocking version of PQcancel
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:34:50 -0400
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Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> Well, that's a fair point, but it's somewhat orthogonal to the one I'm
> making, which is that a non-blocking version of function X might be
> expected to share code or at least functionality with X itself. Having
> something that is named in a way that implies asynchrony without other
> differences but which is actually different in other important ways is
> no good.

Yeah.  We need to choose a name for these new function(s) that is
sufficiently different from "PQcancel" that people won't expect them
to behave exactly the same as that does.  I lack any good ideas about
that, how about you?

>> Yeah, I don't think it's anywhere near fully baked yet.  On the other
>> hand, we do have a couple of weeks left.

> We do?

Um, you did read the psql-release discussion about setting the feature
freeze deadline, no?

			regards, tom lane

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