Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed

Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> 
> Would there be any serious harm in:
> 
> 1. doing the WSAStartup() when the first connection is opened, but
> 

The only problem is how to detect the first connection.  In a threaded 
environment you'd have to perform locking in connectdb, which is 
probably not going to fly.
>>but does it say something similar about shutdown?
From the WSACleanup docs:

"The WSACleanup function typically leads to protocol-specific helper 
DLLs being unloaded. As a result, the WSACleanup function should not be 
called from the DllMain function in a application DLL. This can 
potentially cause deadlocks"

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