No, I do not mean forking.
I want my program to be single threaded. What I want would be somehting like:
$qh = $dbh->prepare("blabla");
$qh->execute;
while (!$qh->is_ready)
{
print "SQL is busy processing your query, please wait...\n";
}
@results = $qh->fetchrow_array;
thanx for your help
At 08:16 AM 8/9/2001 -0600, Sterin, Ilya wrote:
>You mean forking??? You can do anything in the background by creating
>another process with fork(). You can also use Thread, though I don't know
>how stable it is as of now.
>
>Also note that you will not achieve parallel processing unless you are on a
>multi-processor system, but that's irrelevant to the simple task you are
>trying to accomplish.
>
>Ilya
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Giotto De Filippi
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: 8/9/01 7:43 AM
>Subject: background sql queries
>
>(Sorry, may be a double post but I don't know if the other message went
>throught as I was still not registered)
>
>Hello,
>
>Can I do SQL background queries with DBI?
>
>like instead of doing ->prepare, ->execute and ->fetchrow_hashref
>something
>like ->is_ready, to do before fetchrow, so for example I could do other
>things with my perl program while it's waiting for the sql databsae to
>return the result.
>
>Thanx much
>
>Giotto
>
>
>
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