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Documentation about coroutines support reviewed.

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@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ this will be probably implemented in a future release.
.. index::
single: Greenlet, Coroutine, eventlet, gevent, Wait callback
single: Greenlet, Coroutine, Eventlet, gevent, Wait callback
.. _green-support:
@ -374,12 +374,12 @@ Support to coroutine libraries
.. versionadded:: 2.2.0
Psycopg can be used together with coroutine_\-based libraries, and participate
to cooperative multithread.
to cooperative multithreading.
Coroutine-based libraries (such as Eventlet_ or gevent_) can usually patch the
Python standard library in order to enable a coroutine switch in presence of
Python standard library in order to enable a coroutine switch in the presence of
blocking I/O: the process is usually referred as making the system *green*, in
reference to greenlet_, the basic Python micro-thread library.
reference to the `green threads`_.
Because Psycopg is a C extension module, it is not possible for coroutine
libraries to patch it: Psycopg instead enables cooperative multithreading by
@ -387,22 +387,23 @@ allowing the registration of a *wait callback* using the
`psycopg2.extensions.set_wait_callback()` function. When a wait callback is
registered, Psycopg will use `libpq non-blocking calls`__ instead of the regular
blocking ones, and will delegate to the callback the responsibility to wait
for available data.
for the socket to become readable or writable.
This way of working is less flexible of complete asynchronous I/O, but has the
advantage of maintaining a complete |DBAPI| semantics: from the point of view
of the end user, all Psycopg functions and objects will work transparently
in the coroutine environment (the calling coroutine will be blocked while
other coroutines can be scheduled to run), allowing non modified code and
third party libraries (such as SQLAlchemy_) to be used in coroutine-based
programs.
Working this way, the caller does not have the complete freedom to schedule the
socket check whenever they want as with an :ref:`asynchronous connection
<async-support>`, but has the advantage of maintaining a complete |DBAPI|
semantics: from the point of view of the end user, all Psycopg functions and
objects will work transparently in the coroutine environment (blocking the
calling green thread and giving other green threads the possibility to be
scheduled), allowing non modified code and third party libraries (such as
SQLAlchemy_) to be used in coroutine-based programs.
Notice that, while I/O correctly yields control to other coroutines, each
connection has a lock allowing a single cursor at time to communicate with the
connection has a lock allowing a single cursor at a time to communicate with the
backend: such lock is not *green*, so blocking against it would block the
entire program waiting for data, not the single coroutine. Therefore,
programmers are advised to either avoid to share connections between coroutines
or to use a library-friendly lock to synchronize shares connections, e.g. for
programmers are advised to either avoid sharing connections between coroutines
or to use a library-friendly lock to synchronize shared connections, e.g. for
pooling.
Coroutine libraries authors should provide a callback implementation (and
@ -424,6 +425,7 @@ callback (using `!select()` to block) is provided as
.. _coroutine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine
.. _greenlet: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/greenlet
.. _green threads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads
.. _Eventlet: http://eventlet.net/
.. _gevent: http://www.gevent.org/
.. _SQLAlchemy: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/