> I'm porting an embedded-SQL application to PostgreSQL so embedded sql > is a must for me. My application is multi-threaded. SQL queries are > used by several threads. The program keeps terminating unexpectedly in > deemingly "innocent" places. > I figured out that ecpg library can be responsible for this. > Here: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/ecpg-process.html > I found the information that: > "The ecpg library is thread-safe if it is built using the > --enable-thread-safety command-line option to configure." > However my instance of PostgreSQL was installed from _binaries_ that I > downloaded from http://www.postgresql.org > > The questions: > 1. How do I know how my copy of libecpg.lib was built and if it is > thread-safe? > 2. Is there a place I could get the thread-safe version of this > library if I don't want to get into building the whole stuff from the > source code? 1. You can call 'pg_config' in the bin directory, it will tell you the build flags. 2. You did not mention the operating system you use. Yours, Laurenz Albe
