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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:

> It's more what the client library supports, rather than the server,
> but sure. If it doesn't do async queries, that settles it.

The server can't control that. At the networking/OS level, it's all
asynchronous.

I would recommend a process pool for blocking DB queries.


Marko