Re: Concurrent psql API

Shane Ambler wrote:

> Think jobs in a shell, you can suspend a long running process then send
> it to the background to work and go on with something else.
>
> So I am thinking something like C-z that will allow you to switch out of
> a task that is waiting for results without having to stop it with C-c.

I agree -- we would need to have a mode on which it is "not on any
connection", to which we could switch on C-z. If all connections are
busy, there's no way to create a new one otherwise.

It makes sense if we continue with the shell analogy: the shell prompt
is not any particular task. Either there is a task running in
foreground (in which case we have no prompt, but we can press C-z to
suspend the current task and get a prompt), or there isn't (in which
case we have a prompt.)

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