Re: [INTERFACES] Re: thread-safe libpq and DBD::Pg

Tom,

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Goran Thyni <goran(at)bildbasen(dot)se> writes:
> > I am using perl 5.005_01 with threads support and DBI/DBD::Pg.
> > DBI/DBD is the "standard" RDBMS-interface for perl available
> > from CPAN.
>
> Hmm. Well, I'm afraid I have too much on my plate already to go chasing
> an incompatibility with someone else's software. If you or someone else
> can track down what the problem is, I'll gladly help fix libpq (if
> that's what needs fixed) ... but I can't spare the time right now to
> chase a problem that doesn't show up in my setup.

Since there are 3 pcs of s/w involved (all 3 with many lines of C-code)
and non of them are really well tested in a threaded environment
it is a real kludge.
I understand anyone who do not want to stick his head into that,
I pulled my own back and started experimenting with my "pure perl"
interface instead.
Your work cleaning up libpq will be appriciated by lots of programmers
out there.

As a status report on my module, it now fetch records OK too.
On the ToDo-list:
* INET-socket support (now it is Unix domain sockets only)
* explicit cursor support
* BLOB-support
* clean-up of error handling/reporting
* test suite
* DBI-DBD layer on top of standard module
I will release a snap-shot as soon as it is cleaned up a bit and
somewhat more tested.

regards,
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