Re: Is pgsql threadsafe?

William Temperley wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Last week I found the php_pgsql extension wouldn't work on IIS6,
> windows server 2003, using php isapi. PHP was running fine, and I'm
> 99% certain the extension was loaded, extension_loaded() returned true
> and a call to pg_connect produced no error messages, but no connection
> either. No error messages were produced at all.
> When the extension was not loaded I got the usual pg_connect()
> undefined message.
>
> I eventually got it running using fastcgi - which can run
> non-threadsafe php on multithreaded web servers.
>
> Is php_pgsql threadsafe?  Is this usual behaviour?  In which case I'm
> going to abandon pgsql for pdo - I thought I was going to have to
> rewrite my entire application about 3 days from the deadline 'til it
> worked (hours of hair-tearing later) with fastcgi.

Probably a question better asked on the php-internals list (see
http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php) since they maintain the php-pgsql
"module".

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