sybperl-l Archive

From: Tom Poindexter <poindexter dot tom at tci dot com>
Subject: Re: Beginner question - doing async communications with Sybase
Date: Dec 5 1997 11:04PM

Hi Michael & gang,

On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 03:39:59PM -0700, a colleague of mine wrote:
> 
> Are your ears burning?  They are talking about sybtcl on the sybperl list.
> 
> >Ashu Joglekar wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hope I don't get flamed for this :-)
> >
> >I hope you've got your asbestos suit on :-) :-)
> >
> >> but sybtcl does support asynchronous queries.
> >> I haven't used them in a while but the implementation was quite robust.

Thanks Ashu!

> >
> >Does Tom use dbpoll() and friends?
> >
> >I've never written anything using that.
> >
> >Maybe I should look into the CTlib asynch model. It looked quite nice,
> >although I can't say I really looked into it seriously...


Sybtcl - It slices, It dices, It does async !!

Yes, the code uses dbsqlsend() to initiate an asynchronous request, 
then uses dbpoll() to check on any or all of the open connections.

e.g.
	set hand1 [sybconnect id pass SERVER]
	set hand2 [sybconnect id pass SERVER]
	sybsql $hand1 "select foo from bar" -async
	sybsql $hand2 "select bar from foo" -async
	set ready_hand [sybpoll $hand -1 -all]
	sybnext $ready_hand {puts @0}

My DB-Lib to CT-Lib layer also supports this by emulating dbpoll() with
the appropriate CT-Lib functions.

-- 
Tom Poindexter