Re: Void binary patch

Radosław Smogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu>

From: rsmogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-22T14:22:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
 On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:12:23 -0600, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Radosław Smogura
>> <rsmogura@softperience.eu> wrote:
>>> Just patch for missing procedures for void send/recv
>>
>> What problem does this fix?
>
> void returning functions may not be called when binary protocol is
> requested currently.  this is annoying: some drivers that wrap libpq
> or the protocol directly use the binary mode exclusively and this
> causes headaches for them.  put another way, 'void' is the only POD
> type missing send/recv.
>
> merlin

 Just curious what POD means?