From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200304231815.h3NIFxe07882@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: ECPG thread-safety
In-Reply-To: <16038.21258.950904.455466@kelvin.csl.co.uk>
To: Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:15:59 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com>, Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>,
	pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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I have libpq thread-safe patch in my queue:

	http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

Once I have a way to test thread flags for various OS's, I will apply
it.  Maybe you guys can help with that too.

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Lee Kindness wrote:
> Philip Yarra writes:
>  > I've had a few tries at testing the ECPG threadsafe patch, but so
>  > far no luck, probably due to my own lack of experience. Can someone
>  > help me out with how to test this?
>  > 
>  > So far I have:
>  > - run configure
>  > - applied Lee's patch to the source tree for 7.3.2
>  > - edited src/Makefile.global, adding -pthread to CFLAGS and and
>  > -lpthread to LIBS
>  > - make and make install
>  > - make our own pthread'd app, linking against newly installed pgsql
>  > Then when I run our app with 3 DB threads, I can watch 2 of the threads fai=
>  > l=20
>  > to return from EXEC SQL, which is exactly the same behaviour we used to get.
>  > 
>  > Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm building on RedHat Linux 7.=
>  > 3=20
>  > on Intel, using all standard tools for that version (except updated bison=
>  > =20
>  > from 1.35 to 1.875). So gcc 2.96, gmake 3.79.1, etc. Let me know if more=20
>  > details are required.
> 
> Even with this patch you'll still be limited by the underlying
> libpq. So for example you cannot share a connection between threads
> without implementing locking to prevent multiple access to that
> connection.
> 
> I guess the best way would be to open a named connection for EACH
> thread. This SHOULD work, but again not tested...
> 
> L.
> 
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