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Re: [HACKERS] Convert PGconn, PGresult to opaque types?

Goran Thyni <goran@bildbasen.se> — 1998-08-24T12:50:51Z

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Basically this would force applications to use the accessor functions
> > as recommended in the documentation, and not touch fields of a PGconn
> > object directly.  (Ditto for PGresult.)
> 
> I am scared about external stuff like php.  If they use it, and we
> release something that doesn't work with their stuff, we are cooked
> until they upgrade.
> 
> Not really sure what the advantage would be, aside from cleanliness.

The cleaness allows us to change the interals without breaking "external
stuff".
I think Tom is aiming for thread-safeness which can't be done as long as
external stuff insists on accessing global structs inside libpq.
Sometimes we have to break thing to make them work better.

	regards,
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