| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: libpq_r |
| Date: | 2003-07-24 12:52:37 |
| Message-ID: | 200307241252.h6OCqbJ14215@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Lee Kindness wrote:
> Guys, take a look at what was done in libpq to make it
> thread-safe... No locks! No overheaded - just using "proper" reentrant
> functions...
>
> If we have libpq_r then we're making a complete hash of it all - being
> reentrant is good, even if you're not using threads!
>
> Now, ecpg is another issue...
>
I think the issue is that using a threaded library to link into libpq
could have locking stuff.
My guess is that if the OS has separate threaded libs, we have to mimic
that stuff.
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