Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed
Date: 2009-01-16 14:17:10
Message-ID: 20090116141710.GC9963@alvh.no-ip.org
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Andrew Chernow wrote:
> > WSACleanup is not really needed during a PQfinish. Its horribly slow if
> > the library ref count is 0 and it actually unloads the winsock library,
> > adds 225ms to PQfinish.
> >
> > Solution:
> > A) Call WSAStartup once and never clean it up. When the app dies, so do
> > the ref counts and winsock is automatically unloaded.

> 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?

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