Re: libpq not reentrant

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Federico Di Gregorio <fog(at)initd(dot)org>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: libpq not reentrant
Date: 2002-01-18 19:25:37
Message-ID: 200201181925.g0IJPbI04777@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > As of 7.2 we are only going to recommend crypt for backward
> > compatibility with older releases. I will add a mention in libpq docs
> > that crypt authentication is not thread-safe. Even when crypt did work
> ^^^^^^
> "may not be"
>
> > it wasn't always portable between OS's. Is that how we want to go?

OK, new text for docs.

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