Re: Async support in psycopg2

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Dustin Spicuzza
<dustin-Jt2G5/[email protected]> wrote:
> Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
>> Il giorno mer, 30/09/2009 alle 20.32 -0400, Dustin Spicuzza ha scritto:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I'm using psycopg2 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it looks like the documentation
>>> and implementation for the asynchronous interface is lacking quite a bit:
>>>
>>>  - the cursor does not have an "isbusy()", it is actually called "isready()"
>>>  - the cursor does not have a cancel() either -- and a grep of the
>>> sources in git shows that the word cancel appears nowhere in the
>>> sources.... so how exactly does one cancel a query?
>>
>> Asynchronous support is only half-backed. Nobody really helped testing
>> it and I don't use psycopg in a way that requires async queries anymore
>> (mostly I use psycopg in short python scripts for administrative tasks.)
>>
>> So, don't expect it to work.
>>
>
> Fair enough. Could you at least update the documentation then to note
> that it doesn't work? Will save someone some time in the future.
>
> Dustin

FYI, you can use Twisted ( http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ ) with
psycopg as the DB module if you _just_ want asynchronous access to
your database -- though you'll need to learn twisted and do things the
twisted way.

~ Nathan