The methods changed are connection.commit(), rollback(), reset(),
set_isolation_level(), set_client_encoding(), lobject(), cursor(str)
as well as cursor.execute() and cursor.callproc() if another query is
in progress and cursor.executemany(), cursor.copy_{from,to,expert)().
Drop the async kwarg from cursor.execute(), cursors created by
asynchronous connections will be asynchronous by default, ones created
by synchronous connections will be synchronous.
Mind that this might break third party subclasses of
psycopg2.extensions.cursor, if they try to chain to the superclass in
their execute() implementation and are passing the async kwarg. The
example cursors in psycopg2.extras have been fixed no to do that.
Clients using async connections are expected to do their own
transaction management by sending (asynchronously) BEGIN and COMMIT
statements.
As a bonus, it allows to drop one step from the async connection
building, namely getting the default isolation level from the server.
The isread() API was not safe, because the query might have not been
sent fully to the server after calling execute(). To make the async
API complete, a similar mechanism to async connections must be used.
The cursor now has a poll() method that you would use identically to
the poll() method of the connection class.
After calling psycopg2.connect(dsn, async=True) you can poll the
connection that will tell you whether its file descriptor should be
waited on to become writable or readable or that the connection
attempt has succeeded.
Edited commit by Jan to not expose internal state in extensions.py.
Remove the big loop in pq_fetch with the select() call, among
others. Code paths that don't support asynchronous queries should now
be adequately guarded.
The lobject.truncate(len=0) method will be available if psycopg2 has
been built against libpq from 8.3 or later (which is when the lobject
truncating support has been introduced).
