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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-12-02 11:33:53 -0500 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-12-02 11:34:20 -0500 |
| commit | 8af71fc56d0103e7bc0ebb12af152ed3b6ab0250 (patch) | |
| tree | de9dc656045596371da89ed95e87830f57c5b83d | |
| parent | 1c635b03c132a2ee07c1773c3968153f10ed5f79 (diff) | |
Add some weasel wording about threaded usage of PGresults.
PGresults used to be read-only from the application's viewpoint, but now
that we've exposed various functions that allow modification of a PGresult,
that sweeping statement is no longer accurate. Noted by Dmitriy Igrishin.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml index 318cb554efe..c3a91428033 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml @@ -6938,8 +6938,12 @@ int PQisthreadsafe(); </para> <para> - <structname>PGresult</> objects are read-only after creation, and so - can be passed around freely between threads. + <structname>PGresult</> objects are normally read-only after creation, + and so can be passed around freely between threads. However, if you use + any of the <structname>PGresult</>-modifying functions described in + <xref linkend="libpq-misc"> or <xref linkend="libpq-events">, it's up + to you to avoid concurrent operations on the same <structname>PGresult</>, + too. </para> <para> |
