The attached patch removes some old and dead code (and some related

misleading comments) from the PG_Stream class.

Anders Bengtsson

src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/PG_Stream.java

@@ -56,12 +56,6 @@ public class PG_Stream
    */
   public void SendChar(int val) throws IOException
   {
-      // Original code
-      //byte b[] = new byte[1];
-      //b[0] = (byte)val;
-      //pg_output.write(b);
-
-      // Optimised version by Sverre H. Huseby Aug 22 1999 Applied Sep 13 1999
       pg_output.write((byte)val);
   }
 
@@ -84,30 +78,6 @@ public class PG_Stream
     Send(buf);
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Sends an integer to the back end in reverse order.
-   *
-   * This is required when the backend uses the routines in the
-   * src/backend/libpq/pqcomprim.c module.
-   *
-   * As time goes by, this should become obsolete.
-   *
-   * @param val the integer to be sent
-   * @param siz the length of the integer in bytes (size of structure)
-   * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs
-   */
-  public void SendIntegerReverse(int val, int siz) throws IOException
-  {
-    byte[] buf = bytePoolDim1.allocByte(siz);
-    int p=0;
-    while (siz-- > 0)
-      {
-	buf[p++] = (byte)(val & 0xff);
-	val >>= 8;
-      }
-    Send(buf);
-  }
-
   /**
    * Send an array of bytes to the backend
    *
@@ -155,17 +125,6 @@ public class PG_Stream
       }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Sends a packet, prefixed with the packet's length
-   * @param buf buffer to send
-   * @exception SQLException if an I/O Error returns
-   */
-  public void SendPacket(byte[] buf) throws IOException
-  {
-    SendInteger(buf.length+4,4);
-    Send(buf);
-  }
-
   /**
    * Receives a single character from the backend
    *

src/interfaces/jdbc/org/postgresql/fastpath/Fastpath.java

@@ -18,19 +18,6 @@ import org.postgresql.util.*;
  *
  * <p>It is based around the file src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c
  *
- *
- * <p><b>Implementation notes:</b>
- *
- * <p><b><em>Network protocol:</em></b>
- *
- * <p>The code within the backend reads integers in reverse.
- *
- * <p>There is work in progress to convert all of the protocol to
- * network order but it may not be there for v6.3
- *
- * <p>When fastpath switches, simply replace SendIntegerReverse() with
- * SendInteger()
- *
  * @see org.postgresql.FastpathFastpathArg
  * @see org.postgresql.LargeObject
  */
@@ -80,9 +67,7 @@ public class Fastpath
       // that confuses the backend. The 0 terminates the command line.
       stream.SendInteger(70,1);
       stream.SendInteger(0,1);
-      
-      //stream.SendIntegerReverse(fnid,4);
-      //stream.SendIntegerReverse(args.length,4);
+
       stream.SendInteger(fnid,4);
       stream.SendInteger(args.length,4);