Re: [PATCHES] Add function to return the thread safety status of libpq

2005-12-02 Thread Qingqing Zhou

"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> Is there a point in checking the thread-safety of
> libpq when you can't check the thread-safety of libc?
>

Exactly :-(

Regards,
Qingqing



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Re: [PATCHES] Add function to return the thread safety status of libpq

2005-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
Qingqing Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is half of an item in TODO list. I patch this because now pgbench is
> threaded in Win32, so it is better to check thread safety of libpq.dll.

ISTM this was proposed once before, and rejected on the grounds that
no one could present a convincing use case.  Exactly where is there
an application that will support both threaded and nonthreaded libpq
*at run time*?  Is there a point in checking the thread-safety of
libpq when you can't check the thread-safety of libc?

BTW, an acceptable patch that changes libpq's API would require
documentation and exports.txt updates...

regards, tom lane

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