On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 11:37 +0100, Daniel Frey wrote: > I need to know which functions of libpq may "hang", depending on network issues. For some functions is > seems to be clear, as they only work locally, other functions are clearly documented to wait on some > network interaction. But for some functions, it is unclear on whether they are guaranteed to work > locally without any possibility to hang or not, e.g. PQfinish(), PQstatus(), PQtransactionStatus(), etc. > > Is there a complete list of methods that might wait for network communication? No; you have to read the code. For example, PGstatus is defined like this: PQstatus(const PGconn *conn) { if (!conn) return CONNECTION_BAD; return conn->status; } This does not access the network. Yours, Laurenz Albe