Magnus Hagander wrote: > > The easy fix for this is to remove the calls. Which obviously will break > some client apps. A fairly easy fix for the WSAStartup() call is to have > a check in the connection functions against a global variable that will > then make sure to call WSAStartup() the first time it's called. > > That would leave us "leaking" the WSAStartup() call, but only one per > application. This is not perfect, but I'm thinking we can maybe live > with that. > > If not, perhaps we can have it call WSAStartup() everytime we connect to > a server, and then WSACleanup() when we shut down that connection with > PQfinish().
Taken from MSDN docs, this seems the recommended solution. After the first WSAStartup call subsequent calls are cheap because they only increment a counter. Regards, Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster