Re: libpq read/write

Samuel Williams <space.ship.traveller@gmail.com> writes:
> I've been doing some profiling and I was surprised to see that libpq uses
> epoll when handling what essentially amounts to blocking reads/writes.

Yup.

> I was just wondering why it needed to be so complicated?

So that we can also support nonblocking behavior (cf PQisBusy).

If the library were being written from scratch today, I doubt anybody
would bother with that; it'd make more sense for an application to
use a separate thread for the database interaction, if there were
other things it needed to pay attention to concurrently.  But it is
what it is.

            regards, tom lane