From cb3b3eda9a2a35a9ed2ad2eb97cd0355226499de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:00:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] In PQnotifies discussion, reference PQsocket as function needed to get file descriptor number for select(). (Suggestion from Ken Wright.) --- doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index b700ce4497..c8cc2ee3e6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -1460,13 +1460,17 @@ deprecated as a waste of processing power. A better way to check for NOTIFY messages when you have no useful queries to make is to call -PQconsumeInput(), then check PQnotifies(). +PQconsumeInput(), then check +PQnotifies(). You can use select(2) to wait for backend data to arrive, thereby using no CPU power unless there is something -to do. Note that this will work OK whether you use PQsendQuery/ -PQgetResult or simply PQexec for -queries. You should, however, remember to check PQnotifies() -after each PQgetResult or PQexec to see +to do. (See PQsocket() to obtain the file descriptor +number to use with select.) +Note that this will work OK whether you submit queries with +PQsendQuery/PQgetResult or simply +use PQexec. You should, however, remember to +check PQnotifies() after each +PQgetResult or PQexec, to see if any notifications came in during the processing of the query. -- 2.11.0