Re: Change pg_cancel_*() to ignore current backend

<div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Jim Nasby <<a
href="mailto:Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com">Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com</a>>wrote:<br />><br />> On 5/19/15 9:19 PM,
Fabríziode Royes Mello wrote:<br />>><br />>>     We could add a second parameter to the current
functions:<br/>>>     allow_own_pid DEFAULT false. To me that seems better than an<br />>>     entirely
separateset of functions.<br />>><br />>><br />>> +1 to add a second parameter to current
functions.<br/>><br />><br />> Instead of allow_own_pid, I went with skip_own_pid. I have the function still
returningtrue even when it skips it's own PID... that seems a bit weird, but I think it's better than returning false.
Unlesssomeone thinks it should return NULL, but I don't see that as any better either.<br />><br /><br />Isn't
betteruse 'false' as the default value of the new parameter?<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />--<br />Fabrízio de Royes
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