Re: is libpq thread-safe?

* npat@kmp.forthnet.gr <npat@kmp.forthnet.gr> [001214 13:20] wrote:
> A staight forward question:
>
>    Is "libpq" thread-safe??
>
> And an elaboration:
>
>    I want to write a server that opens-up a number of connections
>    to a PostgreSQL database, and then spawns threads handing a connection
>    object (PGconn) to each thread, so that all the threads can
>    perform data-base operations (queries) simultaneously. Each thread will
>    use its own connection object. Will this work??

These are answered in the online docs.  Libpq is threadsafe with a
few exceptions, see the docs for functions you shouldn't call.

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