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To: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
cc: "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>,
	"'David Giffin'" <david@agent911.com>,
	"Ken J. Wright" <ken@ori-ind.com>, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Win32 interface 
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:37:08 +0900
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 10:54:47 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
>> ISTM there was some reason it wouldn't work, like maybe you can
>> only call WSAStartup once per program, but I don't recall for sure.

> We can call WSAStartup() more than once. However,there must be a
> call to WSACleanup() for every successful call to WSAStartup()
> made by a task. Only the final WSACleanup() for that task does the
> actual cleanup.
>
> The simplest way may be to call WSAStartup() while connecting and 
> to call WSACleanup() while finishing(including error cases).

That would be an easy change.  Are these functions fast enough that
calling them for every connect/disconnect cycle would be tolerable?

			regards, tom lane