Re: BUG #18312: libpq: PQsetdbLogin() not thread-safe

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christian Maurer <c(dot)maurer(at)gmx(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #18312: libpq: PQsetdbLogin() not thread-safe
Date: 2024-02-02 18:19:42
Message-ID: 3222816.1706897982@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christian Maurer <c(dot)maurer(at)gmx(dot)at> writes:
>> I wondered whether we needed to introduce a critical section
>> to prevent multiple threads from calling that concurrently,
>> even though its docs allege you shouldn't have to. Perhaps
>> it's thread-safe except on Windows?

> This would explain, why I could not reproduce the error on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Are you in a position to try a source-code patch? The attached
is very quick-and-dirty, but if it resolves your problem then
we could turn it into something respectable.

regards, tom lane

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