Re: A PGsendQuery API design for your review

On 02/02/2016 12:10 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 14:04:08 -0600
> "Karl O. Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:58:16 +0100
>> Federico Di Gregorii <fog(at)dndg(dot)it> wrote:
>>
>>> I can say with some confidence that we'll never implement such an
>>> API. Even the
>>> ux, i.e., accepting multi-queries from the user is wrong, imho.
>
>> Seriously, the real world is complex.
>
> (Reminds me of an interaction I had with the Mozilla people.
> They'd changed Firefox so that a response had to show up
> within 5 minutes. My folks occasionally write queries
> that run hours. Mozilla changed their mind. Hope you will
> too.)

Not sure that was a good idea, holding a resource open for hours to do
nothing seems counter-productive to me. That is what LISTEN/NOTIFY,
Websockets, name your async method, are for.

>
> Regards,
>
> Karl <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
>

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