Re: Using defines for protocol characters

On 2023-Aug-07, Peter Smith wrote:

> I guess, your patch would not be much different; you can still have
> all the nice names and assign the appropriate values to the enum
> values same as now, but using an enum you might also gain
> type-checking in the code and also get warnings for the "switch"
> statements if there are any cases accidentally omitted.

Hmm, I think omitting a 'default' clause (which is needed when you want
warnings for missing clauses) in a switch that handles protocol traffic
is not great, because the switch would misbehave when the network
counterpart sends a broken message.  I'm not sure we want to do that.
It could become a serious security problem if confronted with a
malicious libpq.

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