2018-01-15 12:25 GMT-03:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>:

>> On 15 Jan 2018, at 10:55, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:

>> To add to your list, I recently wrote a new PostgreSQL client, P3, that is 
>> using only TCP networking (no native library mess).
>
> Another important advantage of a TCP/IP based database client is that 
> outstanding/long-running calls do not block your image.

I think thas has more to do with the way FFI calls work in Pharo
rather than TCP/IP.
I.e. Dolphin Smalltalk had the option of non-blocking FFI, used
extensively for DB access where there is more wait and transfer state,
than execution.



Esteban A. Maringolo

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