From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ECPG thread-safety
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:00:23 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200303280200.h2S20N218363@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303281144.37663.philip@utiba.com>
I have put a mailbox file at:
ftp://candle.pha.pa.us/pub/postgresql/mypatches
where there is a partial implementation of thread-safe ecpg. Maybe you
can work with Michael to complete it.
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Philip Yarra wrote:
> As I found out recently, ECPG is not thread-safe. This is a problem for us, as
> we really need to be able to use ECPG* in a multi-threaded C application.
> Michael mentioned that Lee is working on fixing these problems, but was not
> sure when it would be complete.
>
> So, my questions are:
> Lee/anyone, do you have an estimated completion date?
> If not, can we (myself plus a "real" C programmer) help you?
>
> Regards, Philip Yarra.
>
> * Yes, we could use libpq, but ECPG minimises our porting from Informix.
> Rewriting everything to use libpq would be too expensive.
>
>
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