> While (b) has more theoretical purity, I'm inclined to think it > doesn't really improve anybody's life compared to (a), because > --disable-thread-safety doesn't actually stop anyone from using > libpq or ecpglib in threaded environments. It just makes it > more likely to fail when they do.
The question is, what do we do on those platforms? Use setlocale() or fallback to (a) and document that ecpg has to run in a C locale? We could also rewrite the parsing of numbers to not be locale dependent. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
