Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Andrew Chernow wrote:
>> James Mansion wrote:
>>> Is there a need for a new API to control this - can't you just
>>> interpret another parameter keyword
>>> in PQconnectdb (or the pgoptions string in PQsetdbLogin I guess)?
>> That's an interesting idea. I don't know if its the correct place to
>> control this, but it does allow turning off wsastartup and indicating
>> which winsock version to load.
>
>>From a design perspective it seems like the wrong place to put it if you
> think of it as a general initialization. From the narrow perspective of
> wsastartup, it could work to add an option to inhibit it. But will it
> "scale" to future needs?
>
> //Magnus
>
>

yeah, it might be a stretch. It also ignores the other needs for a
library init().

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