Re: Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading?

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Peter Lind <peter.e.lind@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 March 2010 19:37, Tommy Pham <tommyhp2@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: >>> Tommy Pham wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: >>>>>> * If you could implement threads and run those same queries in 2+ >>>>>> threads, the total time saved from queries execution is 1/2 sec or >>>>>> more, which is pass along as the total response time reduced.  Is it >>>>>> worth it for you implement threads if you're a speed freak? >>>>> >>>>> Use mysqlnd - asynchronous mysql queries. >>>>> >>>> >>>> You're assuming that everyone in the PHP world uses MySQL 4.1 or >>>> newer.  What about those who don't? >>> >>> They don't get to use threading, nor asynchronous mysql queries. >>> >>> Come on, you're asking about a future feature in PHP 7.x , but would >>> like to support someone who is seriously backlevel on mysql?? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Per Jessen, Zürich (16.9°C) >>> >> >> I'm not talking about MySQL 4.0 or older.  I'm talking about other >> RDBMS.  I think you should open your eyes a bit wider and take a look >> at the bigger picture (Firebird, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc). > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-send-query.php > > Looks to me like the PHP postgresql library already handles that. Not > to mention: you're not presenting an argument for threads, you're > presenting an argument for implementing asynchronous queries in the > other DBMS libraries. > > Of course, the problem could also be solved by introducing threads in > PHP. I'd personally guess modifying DBMS libraries would be less > costly, but as I haven't been involved in writing the PHP code my > guess isn't worth much. > > Regards > Peter > I'm presenting the argument for threading. Per is presenting the work around using asynchronous queries via mysqlnd. I did read that link a few days ago, "Although the user can send multiple queries at once, multiple queries cannot be sent over a busy connection. If a query is sent while the connection is busy, it waits until the last query is finished and discards all its results." Which sounds like threads -> multiple connections to not run into that problem.