Hi guys,
I just tried to forkIO-off the database code to keep the UI responsive
using Takusen with Sqlite this time.
The problem persists though, the UI freezes.
AFAIK the sqlite-Takusen code does not use unsafe ccall which would block
the thread, so that might not be the cause of the problem after all.
Before you guys make the effort to "fix" this you might see if you can
reproduce the problem maybe uploading a 50 MB file into an Sqlite
database, for instance, or something else that will keep the database busy
for some time in a row.
I did not use -threaded and forkOS though.
Günther
Am 22.12.2008, 21:59 Uhr, schrieb John Goerzen
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:28:03PM -0000, Bayley, Alistair wrote:
From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Günther Schmidt
I understand that Takusen does not use "unsafe" calls and would like to try it with that one then, but haven't find enough docs yet on how to use Takusen.
Not a lot of detailed examples exist for Takusen. I'm hoping the documentation for Database.Enumerator is a reasonable place to start. http://darcs.haskell.org/takusen/doc/html/Database-Enumerator.html
I just reviewed the Takusen code and, for no apparent reason, the ODBC module specifies unsafe for all of its FFI imports, but the other modules do not (so they get the default, which I assume is safe). I also was not aware of unsafe calls blocking other threads. I'll change the ODBC imports to be safe (or rather, unspecified).
Makes sense. I will make the similar change in all HDBC backends.
-- John