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1. pgsql and threads don't match

   Magnus Nslund <magnus@graphicomp.se> — 1998-02-13T16:16:31Z

   I'm a Linux developer that are making a huge server, and i'm trying out
   databases.
   Are the postgres librarys not thread-safe?
   If not, when will it be?
   
   Sincerly Magnus Näslund
   
   
   
   

2. Re: [HACKERS] pgsql and threads don't match

   Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> — 1998-02-13T17:02:14Z

   Magnus Näslund wrote:
   
   > I'm a Linux developer that are making a huge server, and i'm trying out
   > databases.
   > Are the postgres librarys not thread-safe?
   > If not, when will it be?
   
   The Postgres backend is single-threaded software. The client stuff is
   probably thread-safe, and both frontend and backend work with thread-safe
   libraries. Clients can open multiple connections to backends, so I would
   think that you could do so from multiple threads. You might need to take a
   mutex on the connection-opening step; not sure about that. Also, there is
   a separate process per backend connection, so multiple simultaneous
   connections are allowed.
   
   Good luck.
   
                                                                - Tom
   
   
   

3. Re: [HACKERS] pgsql and threads don't match

   Peter T Mount <psqlhack@maidast.demon.co.uk> — 1998-02-14T10:54:29Z

   On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Magnus Nslund wrote:
   
   > I'm a Linux developer that are making a huge server, and i'm trying out
   > databases.
   > Are the postgres librarys not thread-safe?
   > If not, when will it be?
   
   I'm assuming you mean the C libraries?
   
   I can't say about them, but the Java/JDBC is _not_ thread safe - yet. It's
   one of the 4 main things to work on once 6.3 is released.
   
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