From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com>
Cc: Demetres Pantermalis <dpant@intracom.gr>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug in ECPGlib thread-safety (Postgres
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:58:41 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200312160158.hBG1wf624835@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312161256.12516.philip@utiba.com>
Philip Yarra wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:28 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I thinks it's a worthy feature, but perhaps the pre-compiler should warn
> > > people that they are relying on non-standard behaviour?
> >
> > Maybe we could just document its thread-safety as non-standard.
>
> Yes, but my concern is that poor suckers who try to port their code to other
> DBs won't be going and reading the PostgreSQL doco to figure out why their
> code goes suddenly goes "thud!"
>
> Maybe an additional flag for the pre-compiler to turn the warning off (how
> about '--fast-and-loose-thread-behaviour', '-f' for short ?) would stop it
> driving regular users mad, while alerting newer ECPG users that they are
> relying on an extension that might cause portability issues.
I don't think we are going to accept annoying our users on every
compile.
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