There is often a need to run queries in the background in MySQL. This generally is accomplished using a message queue (like gearman), or by using extensions to a client (PHP has such extensions) or by using MariaDB's native async query interface (C client only I think).

While such solutions work well, they don't work for say a GO client, or for the mysql command line client itself.

I present "async"; part of the Swanhart Toolkit (http://github.com/greenlion/swanhart-tools). Async is a stored procedure and event based solution for asynchronous queries.

It consists of:

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• A queue table to hold the SQL to run, the state of execution, error messages, etc
  
• A settings table that controls the number of parallel threads to use for executing queries
  
• A stored routine …