This hides from the user the libpq's implementation detail of
requiring the first select() to wait for the connection socket to
become writable and makes it possible to have a uniform select loop
for both cursors and connections, in which you always start by polling
the object and then acting according to the result from poll().
Idea and implementation by Daniele Varrazzo.
If there is an asynchronous query, polling a cursor that did not
initiate it will raise an exception. Polling while there is no
asynchronous query underway still works, because the user needs to
have a way to get asynchronous NOTIFYs.
When a large query is sent to the backend (and probably in high
concurrency situations), writing the query could block. In
this case PQflush() should be called until it returns 0. The test checks
this is done correctly.
Some methods were forbidden in asynchronous mode, the isolation level
of an asynchronous connection is not always 0 and these changes
influenced expected test results.
