Greetings,
* Michael Paquier (michael@paquier.xyz) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:15:15PM +0000, Jacob Champion wrote:
> > I think we're going to need some analogue to PQinitOpenSSL() to help
> > client applications cut through the mess, but I'm not sure what it
> > should look like, or how we would maintain any sort of API
> > compatibility between the two flavors. And does libpq already have some
> > notion of a "main thread" that I'm missing?
>
> Nope as far as I recall. With OpenSSL, the initialization of the SSL
> mutex lock and the crypto callback initialization is done by the first
> thread in.
Yeah, we haven't got any such concept in libpq. I do think that some of
this can simply be documented as "if you do this, then you need to make
sure to do this".
Thanks,
Stephen