On Thursday 18 August 2011 08:38:28 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 08/18/2011 07:57 AM, Martin Schreiber wrote: > > tmseibconnection uses timer… > > Now you got me curious. :) What is a timer used for in a database > connection? > For example handling of the Firebird or Postgres asynchronous server side DB events. Firebird uses a thread for the purpose which feeds the events into the application main event queue by a single shot zero delay timer, Postgres needs polling. MSE datasets have the possibility to make delayed lookups and delayed filling of lookupbuffers and the like. MSE components also use the main event queue for non blocking component event communication.
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