Re: ECPG thread-safety

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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