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Re: Thread safe connection-name mapping in ECPG. Is it

Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD <zeugswettera@spardat.at>

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From: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
To: "Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar@frodo.hserus.net>, "Michael Meskes" <meskes@postgresql.org>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-02-27T10:15:27Z
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> I am asking for CONNECTION being a variable of data type 'connection *' rather 
> than 'const char *'. That would avoid name lookups.
> 
> Is that out of spec?

Yes, but the preprocessor could still add an optimization ala 'connection *' for
the hardcoded cases (exec sql set connection 'myconn1'; exec sql at 'myconn1' ...).
It needs to maintain the string list for the non hardcoded cases though.

Andreas