The documented max length of a cancel key is 256 bytes, so it fits in uint8. It nevertheless seems weird to not just use 'int', like in commit 0f1433f053 for the backend. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/61be9e31-7b7d-49d5-bc11-721800d89d64%40eisentraut.org
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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