hg wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a transaction server (socket-based) under windows. > > I use mysqldb to log info into MySQL. > > It is all working and I need now to decide whether to use forks > (CreateProcess I guess) or threads. > > I saw in another thread that some db engines did have issues with being > called from threads. > > My gut feeling is to use threads (note: each transaction is finite, so > the process/thread die fairly quickly). > > Any insight ? > > > hg
A thread on the mysqldb forum: By: Rob Steele - robsteele RE: Do I need to enable thread safe mysql lib 2002-10-18 11:35 Yup. You also need to either synchronize the reading and writing threads so that only one can get at the database at a time or else open a second connection. You should probably use sepearate connections, one for each thread. hg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
