Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> I thought we were already relying on DLL load/unload-time calls
> in the Win32 port? Or maybe that was a long time ago and we got
> rid of it? I agree with Andrew that that would be a saner place
> for this than connection start.
We had it, and we removed it because the Win32 API docs say you're not
allowed to do it that way because of deadlock risks.
//Magnus