Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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?

You are not allowed to call WSAStartup() and WSACleanup() from these,
since they may load/unload DLLs...

I think you can find traces of that in the cvs history if you're
interested :-D

//Magnus