Re: libpq: why only one PQsendQuery per connection at a time?

From: David G Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: libpq: why only one PQsendQuery per connection at a time?
Date: 2015-01-04 17:45:38
Message-ID: 1420393538131-5832807.post@n5.nabble.com
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sftf-2 wrote
> So question is why this limitaion exists?
>
> Why PQgetResult(PGconn *conn) operates on connection,
> and not on some unique handler that each "PQsend*" could return.
>
> Is it limitaion of libpq or architecture of postgresql backend or
> backend-frontend protocol?

IIUC this is a backend Postgres limitation - it was designed in a least
complex way where each process acts in a serial fashion. A single process
has no way to maintain concurrent state for multiple active queries.

David J.

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