Re: Thread safe connection-name mapping in ECPG. Is it - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:27:40PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>>What I wonder is, do we really need to maintain that level of lookup? Can't we 
>>just say a connection is a 'struct connection *' which should be opaque and 
>>should not be touched or poked inside, just like PGConn.
> I'm not sure I understand you correctly. The SQL standard says you can
> call your statement as this:
> exec sql at CONNECTION select 1;
> 
> Here CONNECTION of course is a string, the name of the connection. So,
> yes, we have to maintain that list to make sure we get the right
> connection.
> 
> Or what were you asking?

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?
 Shridhar