Re: Fwd: libpq: indefinite block on poll during network problems

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 07:48:00PM +0400, Dmitry Samonenko wrote:
> > BTW, you might consider using libpq's nonblock mode to push the waiting
> > out to the application level, and then you could just decide when you've
> > waited too long for yourself.
> >
> Do you mean PQsendQuery / PQisBusy / PQgetResult? Well, I wouldn't start
> this discussion if that was an option. Adopting async command processing
> would lead to starting client from scratch.

I don't think the suggestion is to move to async command processing. I
think the suggestion is to use those methods to make a
PGgetResultWithTimeout() that does what you want.

Have a nice day,
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