Basic operations

This section answers some common questions you may have following the Quickstart guide (see Quickstart).

• Find a correct place for your app
• Instantiate your connector
  • What kind of Connector should I use?
  • How to instantiate a connector?
    • Environment
    • Data Source Name (DSN)
    • Connection arguments
    • Other arguments
    • Custom connection pool
• Initiate and terminate the connection to the database
  • Explicitly open and close the app
  • Open and close the app with a context manager
  • Use an external pool instead of the connectors default pool
• Define a task
• Defer a job
  • The direct way
  • With parameters
  • Create a job pattern, launch multiple jobs
  • Defer a job if you can’t access the task
  • From the command line
• Launch a worker
  • … Inside an application
• Use the command line
  • Define your app
  • Logging
• Running on Windows