Re: Proposed change to make cancellations safe

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposed change to make cancellations safe
Date: 2016-04-25 12:34:06
Message-ID: CAMsr+YHc_qPds5hJySXq6rvUG0hKOBLZgwpprptDkE_oczWHCw@mail.gmail.com
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On 24 April 2016 at 23:11, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Have you seen this to be a problem in practice, or is it just
> theoretical? I do not recall many, if any, field complaints
> about the issue.
>

It's caused pain for me when working with JDBC in the past.

If libpq gets pipelined query support in future it'll become much more
noticeable. Right now libpq won't be too bothered.

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