Re: BUG #19080: CancelRequest message documentation bug

John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>

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From: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>

To: doomedseer@gmail.com, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org

Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

Date: 2025-10-10T03:16:32Z

Lists: pgsql-bugs

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protocol-varlen-cancelrequest.patch (text/x-patch) patch

On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM PG Bug reporting form
<noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
> Starting from 18 version field "Length of message contents in bytes,
> including self." should not have predefined value, due to variable key
> length. Now it set as (16).

Seems like an oversight, since the docs describe the v3.2 protocol.
I've attached a fix and CC'd the committer to confirm.

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John Naylor
Amazon Web Services