[Haskell-cafe] pool: Why doesn't it block?

[Ertugrul Soeylemez]

Hello Michael, hello fellow haskellers,

there is something, which has bothered me for quite a while, but now it
has become a serious problem for me, because I see it as a bug, and
there is no elegant way to work around it.

I wonder if it's the right semantics for Data.Pool to simply fail with
an exception, if the pool is exhausted.  It would be much more
appropriate, if it would just block, until a resource becomes available.
Otherwise it's just /safe/ for multi-threading, but not really /useful/
for it.

I noticed this when I launched 512 worker threads, but my pool had only
16 database connections.  I need the pool to block, until a resource is
available.

It's also common that my Yesod site just returns an internal server
error, when the pool is exhausted, so you can only handle as many
connections successfully as there are database connections.  I would
expect Yesod to wait for a connection to become available instead of
simply blowing the request.

Blocking should at least be an option and be somehow reachable from
Yesod/persistent.


Greets,
Ertugrul


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