Re: PostgreSQL libraries - PThread Support, but not use...

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> We have definatly had requests for improved thread-safeness for libpq
> and ecpg in the past, so whatever you can do would be a help. We say
> libpq is thread-safe, but specifically mention the non-threadsafe calls
> in the libpq documentation, or at least we should.

We do:
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/libpq-threading.html

But Lee's point about depending on possibly-unsafe libc routines is a
good one. I don't think anyone's gone through the code with an eye to
that.

regards, tom lane