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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 05:01:16 +1000
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From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> 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.

That's what I mean. But if your client library doesn't support async
queries, it's not worth trying to hack it in. The "it" in the second
sentence was referring to "client library", not "server", though I
admit the grammar was a little unclear.

ChrisA