Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: >> Magnus Hagander wrote: >>> If you want to override this behavior today, you can just call >>> WSAStartup() in your application, and it should never happen. Right? > >> Or perhaps use _init() and _fini() or the Win32 equivalents? > > I thought we were already relying on DLL load/unload-time calls > in the Win32 port? Or maybe that was a long time ago and we got > rid of it? I agree with Andrew that that would be a saner place > for this than connection start.
We had it, and we removed it because the Win32 API docs say you're not allowed to do it that way because of deadlock risks. //Magnus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers