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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2023-11-13 13:01:08 -0500
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2023-11-13 13:01:08 -0500
commit57d6a198c9f62c5379cdb6e85e956be2257979c7 (patch)
tree38945e706546ee56f00773f92075d5e91a6a337f /doc/src
parentacc95f29efd4f8aa60eb72a838bfd3c979fb1c5b (diff)
doc: correct description of libpq's PQsetnonblocking() mode
Reported-by: Yugo NAGATA Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210713115949.702986955f8ccf23fa81073c@sraoss.co.jp Backpatch-through: master
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
index 64b2910feef..ed88ac001a1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
@@ -5316,11 +5316,12 @@ int PQsetnonblocking(PGconn *conn, int arg);
</para>
<para>
- In the nonblocking state, calls to
+ In the nonblocking state, successful calls to
<xref linkend="libpq-PQsendQuery"/>, <xref linkend="libpq-PQputline"/>,
<xref linkend="libpq-PQputnbytes"/>, <xref linkend="libpq-PQputCopyData"/>,
- and <xref linkend="libpq-PQendcopy"/> will not block but instead return
- an error if they need to be called again.
+ and <xref linkend="libpq-PQendcopy"/> will not block; their changes
+ are stored in the local output buffer until they are flushed.
+ Unsuccessful calls will return an error and must be retried.
</para>
<para>