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Re: Void binary patch

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

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From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: rsmogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-22T17:39:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:22 AM, rsmogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu> wrote:
> 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?

POD = 'Plain Old Data' -- one of the core types.  :-).

merlin