Re: [boost] [gsoc2008] Database Library (asynchronous)

From: Andreas Pokorny (andreas.pokorny_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-22 11:59:05

Hello,

2008/3/22, Daniel Pfeifer <daniel_at_[hidden]>:
>  > As it happens, I've never needed asynchronous database functions;
>  > generally I block waiting for the results and if there's other work
>  > to do at the same time it's in another thread.  Do you have an
>  > application using asio that's driving this?
>
>
> No, I just thought that it might be useful.  What do others think
>  about asynchronous database access?

If the the asynchronous api fits well into the demultiplexer service of
asio, I would always prefer the async over the sync approach.

kind regards
Andreas Pokorny