Re: Vote needed: revert beta2 changes or not?

"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)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