Re: Possible bug in ECPGlib thread-safety (Postgres

Philip Yarra wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:28 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I thinks it's a worthy feature, but perhaps the pre-compiler should warn
> > > people that they are relying on non-standard behaviour?
> >
> > Maybe we could just document its thread-safety as non-standard.
>
> Yes, but my concern is that poor suckers who try to port their code to other
> DBs won't be going and reading the PostgreSQL doco to figure out why their
> code goes suddenly goes "thud!"
>
> Maybe an additional flag for the pre-compiler to turn the warning off (how
> about '--fast-and-loose-thread-behaviour', '-f' for short ?) would stop it
> driving regular users mad, while alerting newer ECPG users that they are
> relying on an extension that might cause portability issues.

I don't think we are going to accept annoying our users on every
compile.

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