On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Brian E. Sanders wrote:
> I have posted on this twice before about this question, but what does
> this mean in the 6.4-beta2 HISTORY file:
>
> Libpq now allows asynchronous clients(Tom)
>
> If someone knowledgeable would just tell me it's too esoteric a question for
> the mailing lists, please let me know and I'll look elsewhere.
I believe it's where a client can now abort a result while it's still
being received. It does this by sending an OOB (Out Of Band) packet to the
backend.
Peter
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