Katsaros Kwn/nos wrote:
> Well, actually no :) ! Thanks for the hint!
>
> But just from curiosity, would the scenario I described work?
> I mean is it possible for an SPI process to run in the background while
> other SPI calls are made?
I don't think so, you're running in a backend process, so you'd need to
fork the backend itself.
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:15, Richard Huxton wrote:
>
>>Katsaros Kwn/nos wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to add a -project specific- networking feature to my postgres
>>>build (or database as function). What I want to do is to send a Query
>>>instance (as a String-retrieved through an SPI function) to other
>>>machines and (after they have executed it) to receive result tuples.
>>>It's about a mediator-wrapper project. My first thought was to write 2
>>>SPI functions (one for the server (concurrent) and the other for client)
>>>but I'm not sure if this is going to work. I'm worried about setting up
>>>the server process running on the background while other SPI calls are
>>>made.
>>
>>Have you looked at the dblink code?
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
