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From: John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>
To: Raimon Fernandez <coder@montx.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Implementing Frontend/Backend Protocol TCP/IP
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:29:15 -0700
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Raimon Fernandez wrote:
> REALbasic has plugin for PostgreSQL, but they are synchronous  and 
> freeze the GUI when interacting with PG. This is not a problem 
> noramlly, as the SELECTS/UPDATES/... are fast enopugh, but sometimes 
> we need to fetch 1000, 5000 or more rows and the application stops to 
> respond, I can't have a progressbar because all is freeze, until all 
> data has come from PG, so we need a better way.

I would think the better solution would be to get the vendor to fix its 
native plugin to support an asynchronous mode.   Or, does this RealBasic 
support any sort of client-server or multi-task type programming?  if 
so, have a separate task or thread that does the SQL operations which 
your interactice program interfaces with...

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