Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:18:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: David G Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is CREATE TABLE non-blocking ?
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Benjamin Dugast wrote
> Hello,
> 
> We have an issue with tables creations in our application.
> 
> We think CREATE TABLE returns before the tables are created. Because this
> looks like a non-blocking operation, our inserts (in a callback) are
> actually happening before the tables are created.
> 
> We tried to use a Thread.sleep() just before the insert and it works but
> we
> can't stay with this.
> 
> What can we do to avoid this problem?

Nothing in the server is asynchronous (expect maybe notify/listen) but that
doesn't prevent you from interacting with the server in an asynchronous way
client-side.

Showing code usually helps people provide suggestions on how to avoid a
problem.

David J.


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