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On 28 February 2018 at 11:20, Laurent FAILLIE <l_faillie@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writting a bridge from incoming MQTT messages (using paho.mqtt library)
> to Postgresql database insertion using pgmoon.
>
> As this tool will be only even driven and as all the processing will be done
> in the MQTT callback, my tool will have nothing to do in its main loop.
>
> Which is the best way the handle this infinite "do nothing" ? The target
> system is Linux so I can obviously use POSIX stuffs.
>
> Thanks
>
> Laurent

I did a thing similar recently as a demo.

I used cqueues + https://github.com/flukso/lua-mosquitto
You could use https://github.com/daurnimator/cqueues-pgsql to do the
writing to postgres.