Re: Thread-unsafe coding in ecpg

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thread-unsafe coding in ecpg
Date: 2019-01-20 17:08:40
Message-ID: d441f5913b147e5b3e0eed4647f9839d926d90fc.camel@postgresql.org
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> > The question is, what do we do on those platforms? Use setlocale()
> > or
> > fallback to (a) and document that ecpg has to run in a C locale?
>
> No, we shouldn't use setlocale(), because it clearly is hazardous
> even on platforms where it doesn't fail outright. I don't see
> anything so wrong with just documenting the hazard. The situation

Actually I meant using setlocale() and documenting that it must not be
used with threads, or document it must not be used with locales?

Michael
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