Re: Fwd: libpq: indefinite block on poll during network problems

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
wrote:

> I don't think the suggestion is to move to async command processing. I
> think the suggestion is to use those methods to make a
> PGgetResultWithTimeout() that does what you want.
>
> Have a nice day,
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> Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> does
> > not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
>    -- Arthur Schopenhauer
>
>
Yeah, that will work. Looks simple to implement in the client. Question is:
why don't you think it should be a part of the libpq's API? It's a must
have feature in high availability environments where only several minutes
of Out of Service per year are tolerable.

I am not sure if it is the right mailing list to ask, but - would a patch
with the function be considered?