Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for async support in libpq - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for async support in libpq
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Msg-id 199804190116.VAA07631@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for async support in libpq  (Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>)
List pgsql-hackers
>
> > In backend/libpq/pqcomm.c, I see pg_sendoob() which sends out-of-band
> > data FROM the backend TO the client, but it is not called from anywhere.
> >
> > This could be a method of signaling that a notification was pending, and
> > sending out-of-band data FROm the client TO the backend could be used
> > for cancelling a query.
> >
> > out-of-band data causes a convenient signal to the process on the other
> > end, which can easily be used to handle these cases.
>
> Wasn't the problem with OOB data that java doesn't support this? I
> remember that OOB data has come up before on this list a long time ago,
> and that at that time some java bloke (peter?) started to complain :)

I sure don't remember this topic, or anyone complaining about OOB.

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