Commit cb3b3eda authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

In PQnotifies discussion, reference PQsocket as function needed to get

file descriptor number for select().  (Suggestion from Ken Wright.)
parent d2684ea7
......@@ -1460,13 +1460,17 @@ deprecated as a waste of processing power.
<para>
A better way to check for NOTIFY
messages when you have no useful queries to make is to call
<function>PQconsumeInput()</function>, then check <function>PQnotifies()</function>.
<function>PQconsumeInput()</function>, then check
<function>PQnotifies()</function>.
You can use <function>select</function>(2) to wait for backend data to
arrive, thereby using no <acronym>CPU</acronym> power unless there is something
to do. Note that this will work OK whether you use <function>PQsendQuery</function>/
<function>PQgetResult</function> or simply <function>PQexec</function> for
queries. You should, however, remember to check <function>PQnotifies()</function>
after each <function>PQgetResult</function> or <function>PQexec</function> to see
to do. (See <function>PQsocket()</function> to obtain the file descriptor
number to use with <function>select</function>.)
Note that this will work OK whether you submit queries with
<function>PQsendQuery</function>/<function>PQgetResult</function> or simply
use <function>PQexec</function>. You should, however, remember to
check <function>PQnotifies()</function> after each
<function>PQgetResult</function> or <function>PQexec</function>, to see
if any notifications came in during the processing of the query.
</para>
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