Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane schrieb: >> The bit that I think is missing in DBI is "issue a command and don't >> wait for the result just yet". ... >> I might be wrong though, not being exactly a DBI guru ... can this >> sort of thing be done? >> > I wonder if you dont have a wrapper around libpq you can use like that?
Sure, it wouldn't take much to create a minimal C+libpq program that would do the basics. But the history of testing tools teaches that you soon find yourself wanting a whole lot more functionality, like conditional tests, looping, etc, in the test-driver mechanism. That's the wheel that I don't want to re-invent. And it's a big part of the reason why stuff like Expect and the Perl Test modules have become so popular: you have a full scripting language right there at your command. Maybe the right answer is just to hack up Pg.pm or DBD::Pg to provide the needed asynchronous-command-submission facility, and go forward from there using the Perl Test framework. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings