Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> 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