| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed |
| Date: | 2009-01-16 15:17:18 |
| Message-ID: | 4970A4FE.709@hagander.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> If you want to override this behavior today, you can just call
>>> WSAStartup() in your application, and it should never happen. Right?
>
>> Or perhaps use _init() and _fini() or the Win32 equivalents?
>
> I thought we were already relying on DLL load/unload-time calls
> in the Win32 port? Or maybe that was a long time ago and we got
> rid of it? I agree with Andrew that that would be a saner place
> for this than connection start.
We had it, and we removed it because the Win32 API docs say you're not
allowed to do it that way because of deadlock risks.
//Magnus
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