Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed
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Msg-id 20090116141710.GC9963@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed  (Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>)
Re: libpq WSACleanup is not needed  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Andrew Chernow wrote:
> > WSACleanup is not really needed during a PQfinish.  Its horribly slow if
> >  the library ref count is 0 and it actually unloads the winsock library,
> > adds 225ms to PQfinish.
> > 
> > Solution:
> > A) Call WSAStartup once and never clean it up.  When the app dies, so do
> > the ref counts and winsock is automatically unloaded.

> If you want to override this behavior today, you can just call
> WSAStartup() in your application, and it should never happen. Right?

Or perhaps use _init() and _fini() or the Win32 equivalents?

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