On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:35, Marc Balmer <marc@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I two Unix/ process related questions: > > Is there a documented way to pass around an (opened) PGconn * structure > between two processes on Unix? No. You can probably hack up something yourself but you'd have to look inside the struct which is not part of the public API - so it'd be a very version-dependent (even minor-version dependent!) hack. > When a process forks() and both the parent and child process continue to > use a previously opened PGconn * structure, is that behaviour defined? Yes - "broken" :-) Well, the child can continue to use it *as long as the parent doesn't use it anymore*. And note that while it may be a good idea in general to close the socket in the parent, you can *not* call PQclose() on it - that'll tell the server you're disconnecting, and the child will stop working. In theory you could do something like close(PQsocket(conn))... -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
