Re: ECPG thread-safety

I have libpq thread-safe patch in my queue:

http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

Once I have a way to test thread flags for various OS's, I will apply
it. Maybe you guys can help with that too.

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Lee Kindness wrote:
> Philip Yarra writes:
> > I've had a few tries at testing the ECPG threadsafe patch, but so
> > far no luck, probably due to my own lack of experience. Can someone
> > help me out with how to test this?
> >
> > So far I have:
> > - run configure
> > - applied Lee's patch to the source tree for 7.3.2
> > - edited src/Makefile.global, adding -pthread to CFLAGS and and
> > -lpthread to LIBS
> > - make and make install
> > - make our own pthread'd app, linking against newly installed pgsql
> > Then when I run our app with 3 DB threads, I can watch 2 of the threads fai=
> > l=20
> > to return from EXEC SQL, which is exactly the same behaviour we used to get.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm building on RedHat Linux 7.=
> > 3=20
> > on Intel, using all standard tools for that version (except updated bison=
> > =20
> > from 1.35 to 1.875). So gcc 2.96, gmake 3.79.1, etc. Let me know if more=20
> > details are required.
>
> Even with this patch you'll still be limited by the underlying
> libpq. So for example you cannot share a connection between threads
> without implementing locking to prevent multiple access to that
> connection.
>
> I guess the best way would be to open a named connection for EACH
> thread. This SHOULD work, but again not tested...
>
> L.
>
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