At 15:45 Uhr +0200 18.10.2005, Johannes Groedem wrote:
The libraries often have provisions for this. See for example PostgreSQL's client library and its PQconsumeInput, PQisBusy, etc. But I guess the C libraries you're using don't support this, then?
The MySQL client library doesn't seem to support this.
It could be that the best solution is to just implement the protocol in Scheme.
It might be tempting to try this and see how fast Gambit can get with it. And see whether one is able to grok and imitate the protocol. But I think that doesn't scale in two ways: first, if Mysql is extended with new functionality, that interface might be going to break much sooner than if it did use the C libs. Second, there are more libraries than only this one. Imagine if you could run all of Perl's CPAN without change and not block any other scheme thread.
Christian.