Re: [HACKERS] libpq and SPI

Reversed out. Attached is the patch.

> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Applied.
> >
> >> Just in case you'd like to see what I was talking about, I am attaching
> >> my patch to src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c to prevent utility functions
> >> called from SPI from locking up the client.
>
> Uh, I didn't actually believe that that patch was a good idea. Hacking
> libpq to survive a protocol violation committed by the backend is *not*
> a solution; the correct answer is to fix the backend. Otherwise we will
> have to discover similar workarounds for other clients that do not
> use libpq (ODBC, for example).
>
> Please reverse out that patch until someone can find some time to look
> at the issue. (I will, if no one else does, but it would probably be
> more efficient for someone who already knows something about SPI to
> fix it...)
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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