Threading problems at program exit

[maney at pobox.com]

Dave Cole <djc at object-craft.com.au> wrote:
> That is an interesting approach.  I should have a look at the
> PostgreSQL adapter to see how intrusive the approach is.

Well, there are several of them.  I would think this would have been in
psycopg if only because that's the one I ended up choosing to use for
my projects, so I would have been most likely to have looked into it a
bit further than the others.

  http://initd.org/software/initd/psycopg

> Anyone developing a multi-threaded application has to be aware of the
> possible deadlock situations.  Having said that I suppose I should be
> going out of my way to introduce more opportunities for deadlock :-)

I wouldn't have wanted to say it but, yeah, that's what it sounded
like in this discussion.  :-)

Not that you aren't up against a hard problem if you need to provide
the illusion that a finite number of non-sharable connections are an
unbounded number of Cursors that may be left sitting.  :-(