From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PGSQL-Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: ecpg threading vs win32 |
Date: | 2007-04-03 01:06:17 |
Message-ID: | 200704030106.l3316HL09204@momjian.us |
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Michael, is there any progress on this?
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Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:48:19AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > Q2. Do we need to use PQescapeStringConn() instead of PQescapeString()?
> > > PQescapeString() is used to escape literals, and the documentation says
> > > PQescapeStringConn() should be used in multi-threaded client programs.
> > > http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-EXEC-ESCAPE-STRING
> > > | PQescapeString can be used safely in single-threaded client programs
> > > | that work with only one PostgreSQL connection at a time
> >
> > Seems so, but that's unrelated to this patch ;-) I'll leave the final
> > comment on that up to Michael.
>
> Looking at the source code it seems to me that the connection argument
> is only used once in PQescapeStringInternal which both functions call.
> Here's the snippet:
>
> if (conn)
> printfPQExpBuffer(&conn->errorMessage,
> libpq_gettext("incomplete multibyte character\n"));
>
> So this essantially is only to get an error message into the connection
> structure. However, having an empty connection makes PQescapeStringConn
> return an error and an empty string which I consider a problem. I have
> to check that in detail but we may run into a usage of
> PQescapeString without an open connection which then would fail.
>
> Michael
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