Re: Possible bug in ECPGlib thread-safety (Postgres

Philip Yarra wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:08 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have updated the 7.4.X does and CVS head docs to mention that ecpg SET
> > CONNECTION is not thread-aware, and I have added this to the ecpg TODO:
> > 
> >         o Make SET CONNECTION thread-aware
> 
> One thing that concerns me: I doubt this is supported in other database 
> systems... people who relied on this feature in ECPG would likely encounter 
> threading bugs if they port their code to other DBs. And threading bugs can 
> be nasty to find. Does anyone know how other DBs handle this issue?
> 
> I thinks it's a worthy feature, but perhaps the pre-compiler should warn 
> people that they are relying on non-standard behaviour?

It would cause people moving _from_ PostgreSQL, but no one does that, of
course.  :-)

I thought the standard wasn't clear so we could do it.  You have a good
point, but that AT clause is annoying people.   Other comments?  

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