Re: More protocol.h replacements this time into walsender.c

From: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>, Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: More protocol.h replacements this time into walsender.c
Date: 2025-08-04 21:11:26
Message-ID: CAOYmi+nQ75D+OcyDa0cH3q5Hh_vioErtDgXHMaNGK4xfeG2EPA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> The replication protocol uses many of the
> existing PqMsg macros already, so it would be a little strange if only a
> subset of the replication protocol messages used the special prefix.

May I ask why? These messages are legitimately different; they're
tunneled through CopyData, so their reservations don't collide with
the top-level codes.

> There's also backups, which use the replication protocol but
> have their own special characters [0]. If we're going the prefix route,
> would we add another prefix for those, or use the replication one?

My vote would be to add another. 'p' is a password message in the
top-level protocol (one of many, actually), a progress message in a
backup stream, and a status request in a replication stream, so I
think they deserve their own namespaces.

--Jacob

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