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On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not think Oracle support async or non-blocking queries as
> Postgres does. But what I think I can do is not call join(), and just
> start monitoring the server when I kick off the thread with the mail
> sql it in.

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

ChrisA