From: | Maarten Boekhold <maartenb(at)dutepp0(dot)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for async support in libpq |
Date: | 1998-04-18 10:10:47 |
Message-ID: | Pine.SUN.3.91.980418120923.3597G-100000@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl |
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> 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 :)
Maarten
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