Re: Thread-unsafe coding in ecpg

On 1/21/19 12:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> Seems jacana might not have like this change?
>> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=jacana&dt=2019-01-21%2019%3A01%3A28
> Hmm.  So mingw doesn't provide access to _configthreadlocale().
> That's unfortunate, at least if we think that mingw is still a viable
> production platform, because it means we can't make ecpg thread-safe
> on that platform.
>
> Is there a newer version of mingw that does have this functionality?
> I'm not sure whether to install a version check or just assume that
> it's never there.

Apparently this can be done with thee 64bit version:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33647271/how-to-use-configthreadlocale-in-mingw

JD


>
>             regards, tom lane
>

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