DB work is a IO operation, and IO shouldn't be done inside a go block (go
blocks use limited thread pools).

So what about something like this?

(defn handle-db [chan]
 (thread
    (while true
      (let [[data result] (<! c)]
         (run-db-transaction-as-normal data)
         (>! result :done)))))

Now spin up a few of these:

(def db-chan (let [c (chan 4)]
                         (dotimes [x 4]
                           (handle-db c))
                         c))

Now it's trivial to use this from a go block:

(defn db-async [data]
  (go
    (let [c (chan)]
      (>! db-chan [data c])
      (<! c))))

So this is the pattern: create processors using threads, then send data to
those processors via a shared channel, passing in a response channel.

Anyways, that's the way I'm thinking these days.

Timothy




On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Alice <dofflt...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an async http handler and I don't want it to consume a thread.
>
> On Thursday, August 1, 2013 3:16:52 AM UTC+9, tbc++ wrote:
>
>> Why not use <!! ?
>>
>> Timothy
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Alice <doff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It doesn't produce a compile time error but I think it's not the correct
>>> code because the transaction can be committed while insert-async! is still
>>> executing.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, August 1, 2013 2:46:29 AM UTC+9, Sean Corfield wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Alice <doff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > (go
>>>> >   (jdbc/db-transaction [t-con db-spec]
>>>> >     (<! (insert-async! t-con :fruit {:name "apple"}))))
>>>>
>>>> Does this work:
>>>>
>>>> (jdbc/db-transaction [t-con db-spec]
>>>>   (go
>>>>      (<! (insert-async! t-con :fruit {:name "apple"}))))
>>>>
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