On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:55:39AM +0100, Michael Peppler wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 18:28, Stas Bekman wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As mod_perl 2 is going to be released shortly the issue with DBI and > > friends not being thread-safe (I believe DBI is fine, but DBDs are not) > > becomes a problem. Since Apache 2 has a bunch of threaded MPM > > implementations and while Unix users could always use prefork MPM (no > > threads) windows users can't afford this luxary, they need the modules to > > be thread-safe in order to use those. > > DBD::Sybase is thread-safe, AFAIK, provided that it is built with the _r > version of the Sybase libraries.
DBD::Oracle is thread-safe, AFAIK. It automatically initializes the OCI library in threaded mode if the perl is configured for threading or multiplicity. Tim. p.s. Michael, DBD::Sybase could (should?) automatically link with the _r version of the Sybase libraries if the perl is configured for threading or multiplicity.
