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To: "Ken J. Wright" <ken@ori-ind.com>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] PQnotifies & select 
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:49:00 -0700
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:35:14 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Ken J. Wright" <ken@ori-ind.com> writes:
> What handle(s) would I need to feed to select() to wait for a notification
> which I can then pickup via PQnotifies()?

PQsocket(connobject) delivers the file descriptor, or -1 if there is no
open connection.  There is some doco about this in the current
documentation set, although I have to agree it's terse.

			regards, tom lane