We don't do somersaults to ensure people can use snowmen as transaction
ids anyway: it would require passing the connection to xid_ensure and
down below to use the correct encoding.
Allow the objects to be recognized as the proper type by Postgres in not
strong contexts: problem reported by Peter Eisentraut.
Added tests to check the types are respected in a complete Py -> PG ->
Py roundtrip without context.
Don't rely on Postgres casting the literal according to the context:
this doesn't work e.g. passing the object as function argument where a
function with the same name but taking a text exists. It doesn't work
either when the object is in an ARRAY construct.
Added test to check the type is respected in a complete Py -> PG -> Py
roundtrip without context.
Bug and solution reported by Peter Eisentraut.
With the current implementation, at best they would silently block. They
actually hang everything.
Implementation posponed after some refactoring of the polling system,
because it will be probably possible to provide an implementation for
'poll()' during COPY which is good for both async and green modes.
If the connection is sync, notices will be processed by pq_fetch()
downstream.
If the connection is async, here we have only sent the query: no result
is ready yet, and neither notices have had a chance to arrive: they will
be retrieved later by pq_is_busy().
Added tests to check the above statement don't break.
Instead, the code should be using the fileno() and poll() methods of
the cursor's connection. Handle the case when poll() is called on an
already built connection as a request to poll the asynchronous query
(if there is one) and get NOTIFY events.
Update the tests to reflect that change, add a test for NOTIFY.
Do it by keeping the reference to the last PGresult in the cursor and
calling pq_fetch() before ending the asynchronous execution. This
takes care of handling the possible error state of the PGresult and
also allows the removal of the needsfetch flag, since now after
execution ends the results are already fetched and parsed.
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.
