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Re: libpq, blocking/nonblocking mechanism: msg#00003

Subject: Re: libpq, blocking/nonblocking mechanism
Hi,

On 6/1/05, Terry Lee Tucker <terry@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> PQsetnonblocking() causes PQsendQuery to send an sql string to the backend
> and it returns immediately if you have set nonblocking to true. If you have
> not set nonblocking to true, then PQsendQuery behaves just like PQexec; it
> blocks, i.e., it waits for the query, update, delete, or whatever to complete
> before it returns program control back to your program. We set nonblocking to
> True in our application and when the user queries a large table that could
> return thousands of records, we use PQsendQuery instead of PQexec; however,
> if you do that, then you have to use PQconsumeInput and PQisBusy in
> conjunction with a select statement to monitor the backend connection socket
> so you can process the results when the query finishes. Another reason for
> using asynchronous queries is that you can provide a mechanism for the user
> to cancel the operation.

Thanks so much for the explanation.

> Our application is X-Windows based written in C.
> All my examples are C. If you want to see any of it, you can let me know.

I'd be so appreciated to see them.

Regards.

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