Thread

Remove MsgType type

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> — 2025-12-22T08:46:13Z

Presumably, the C type MsgType was meant to hold the protocol message 
type in the pre-version-3 era, but this was never fully developed even 
then, and the name is pretty confusing nowadays.  It has only one 
vestigial use for cancel requests that we can get rid of.  Since a 
cancel request is indicated by a special protocol version number, we can 
use the ProtocolVersion type, which MsgType was based on.  (If this is 
also found confusing, we could also use uint32 directly.)