Francisco Figueiredo Jr Activities

Hi all, I finally could get synchronous notification done. It is in cvs now. What is synchronous notification? Up to now, in order to get notifications from postgresql, Npgsql clients would need to call empty commands. If application didn't do that, only on next NpgsqlCommand.Execute* call notification would be delivered. Now with synchronous notification, client applications are notified as soon as message arrives, hence the name synchronous notification. On current code, it is disabled by default. To enable it, you have to put syncnotification=true in your connection string. How it works? When you enable synchronous notification, Npgsql will create another thread to check is data arrived in socket. To do that, it uses Socket.Poll method. When Npgsql is idle, this thread is running. It is stopped as soon as any NpgsqlCommand.Execute* method is called and resumed when this call returns. Side effects: Because of synchronization of threads, there is performance drop when using synchr...

Hi all, Magnus Hagander added this blog to the list of blogs in PlanetPostgresql.org ! Thank you very much, Magnus. As I said before, this is a honor to me :)

Hi all, I finally got the synchronization problems fixed and now Npgsql supports synchronous notification! Right now the code is only on my devel machine. I will commit the code to cvs this week. I'm still doing more tests. All tests I did up to now passed ok!

Hi all, After recovering from my myopia surgery, I started to play with the long ago requested synchronous notification support in Npgsql. With it, you will be able to receive notifications from Postgresql server as soon as they are posted. Right now it can handle correctly the notifications, but I'm having some problems when sync'ing the notification thread. This notification thread will be checking for notifications from server with Socket.Poll calls. As soon as I got this sync problem done, I will commit it to cvs. Stay tunned.

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Olá pessoal, Alguns colegas meus me perguntaram porque o meu blog estava todo em inglês. Eu falei para eles que era apenas uma questão de audiência. No entanto o fato de eu escrever em Inglês não impede que os meus amigos deixem comentários em Português. Podem escrever à vontade! :) Valeu pelo apoio e por me chamar a atenção para esse fato. Até a próxima!