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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:19:50 +0200
From: Goran Thyni <goran@bildbasen.se>
Organization: JMS Bildbasen i Kiruna AB
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
CC: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org, Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: thread-safe libpq and DBD::Pg
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Tom,

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Goran Thyni <goran@bildbasen.se> writes:
> > I am using perl 5.005_01 with threads support and DBI/DBD::Pg.
> > DBI/DBD is the "standard" RDBMS-interface for perl available
> > from CPAN.
> 
> Hmm.  Well, I'm afraid I have too much on my plate already to go chasing
> an incompatibility with someone else's software.  If you or someone else
> can track down what the problem is, I'll gladly help fix libpq (if
> that's what needs fixed) ... but I can't spare the time right now to
> chase a problem that doesn't show up in my setup.

Since there are 3 pcs of s/w involved (all 3 with many lines of C-code)
and non of them are really well tested in a threaded environment 
it is a real kludge.
I understand anyone who do not want to stick his head into that,
I pulled my own back and started experimenting with my "pure perl"
interface instead.
Your work cleaning up libpq will be appriciated by lots of programmers
out there.

As a status report on my module, it now fetch records OK too.
On the ToDo-list:
	* INET-socket support (now it is Unix domain sockets only)
	* explicit cursor support
	* BLOB-support
	* clean-up of error handling/reporting
	* test suite
	* DBI-DBD layer on top of standard module
I will release a snap-shot as soon as it is cleaned up a bit and
somewhat more tested.

	regards,
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Göran Thyni, sysadm, JMS Bildbasen, Kiruna