Philip Yarra wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:08 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have updated the 7.4.X does and CVS head docs to mention that ecpg SET
> > CONNECTION is not thread-aware, and I have added this to the ecpg TODO:
> >
> > o Make SET CONNECTION thread-aware
>
> One thing that concerns me: I doubt this is supported in other database
> systems... people who relied on this feature in ECPG would likely encounter
> threading bugs if they port their code to other DBs. And threading bugs can
> be nasty to find. Does anyone know how other DBs handle this issue?
>
> I thinks it's a worthy feature, but perhaps the pre-compiler should warn
> people that they are relying on non-standard behaviour?
It would cause people moving _from_ PostgreSQL, but no one does that, of
course. :-)
I thought the standard wasn't clear so we could do it. You have a good
point, but that AT clause is annoying people. Other comments?
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