Re: ecpg thread-safe descriptor

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:37:40PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> AFAIRC (and hopefully I'm right this time)
> >> multithreading never worked under msvc so we might have to set
> >> thread-safety to disabled on these systems for ecpg for the time being.
>
> If it didn't work then this seems clearly new-feature-development.

Well, ecpg was said to work with multithreading but didn't. However,
since the patch works on most archs if indeed fixes some bugs on those
archs.

> I think Magnus' idea of providing an exports list would be worth trying,
> if someone can try it promptly; failing that, we need to revert this
> patch.

Couldn't we just disable multithreading for Windows resp. MSVC? It
appears to me that the rest of the patch is working as advertized.

Michael
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