Re: refactor some protocol message sending in walsender and basebackup

On 01.07.22 23:36, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 04:36:36PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Some places in walsender.c and basebackup_copy.c open-code the sending of
>> RowDescription and DataRow protocol messages.  But there are already more
>> compact and robust solutions available for this, using DestRemoteSimple and
>> associated machinery, already in use in walsender.c.
>>
>> The attached patches 0001 and 0002 are tiny bug fixes I found during this.
>>
>> Patches 0003 and 0004 are the main refactorings.  They should probably be
>> combined into one patch eventually, but this way the treatment of
>> RowDescription and DataRow is presented separately.
> 
> All 4 patches look reasonable to me.

All committed now, thanks.

(I cleaned up the 0004 patch a bit more; there was some junk left in the 
posted patch.)