Re: thread safe sqlca-value

I forgot:
Opinions are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of Brokat Infosystems AG !

Frank Gerlach wrote:

> Our R&D team had a lot of problems with ora 8.x client libs, which do not
> seem to be threadsafe in every case (especially connect). There is also a
> silly error message when the session limit of the listener is reached.
> Seems that even oracle does not have a good QA team :-((
>
> Roland wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am developing a multi-threaded server (in c) using oracle pro*c to
> > access an oracle-db on linux, using oracle 8.0.5.
> >
> > If i have lots of threads, do I have to mutex the sqlca accesses or not?
> > I have 1 session context, but more than 1 accesses to the database, and
> > the threads
> > are pretty complex (they call lots of functions), so in the end: i do
> > not know WHAT action a thread at a given time does perform.
> >
> > As far as I could figure out, the sqlca datastructure is the only
> > dangerous part, is this correct?
> >
> > Thanks for ur help!
> > Roland.
> >
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Received on Sat Oct 30 1999 - 00:00:00 CEST