Re: ODBC Driver stability - Mailing list pgsql-odbc

From Shachar Shemesh
Subject Re: ODBC Driver stability
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Msg-id 419A38B8.4000604@shemesh.biz
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In response to Re: ODBC Driver stability  (<md-postgres-donath@netapps.de>)
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md-postgres-donath@netapps.de wrote:

>Hello Shachar,
>
>oh ... good news ... i didn't know that the ole db driver has been released.
>i will check the ole db driver, thank you for the information !
>
>
It has not been "officially" released yet, but version 1.0.0.15 made a
major move in that direction. It has purged itself from ugly debug
asserts and message boxes. In addition to that, it is being actively
maintained, and so I'm hoping for a proper release soon.

>what do you mean with "OLE ... prevents threading problems the hard way" ?
>
>
OLE (well, DCOM really) allows a threading solution for the lazy (for
the time being, that's us). The server runs (by default) in a single
thread, and all other threads use a proxy to call it. Right now we are
too focused on getting this version functionally complete to start
worrying about this. As OLE DB is generally a faster concept anyways,
I'm hoping this won't be too much of a problem.

Work on getting multi threading into the provider cannot start until I
understand libpq's thread safety.

          Shachar

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