[Zope] Password screens

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Eikenberry [mailto:jae@kavi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 2:48 PM
> To: Michel Pelletier
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Password screens
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Michel Pelletier wrote:
> 
> > As for the mysql issue, I suspect the bottleneck is purely 
> a MySQL thing
> > if Zope doesn't behave that way all the time.  Note that 
> even though you
> > may be running Zope in threaded mode, the MySQL client library for
> > python (which we did not write and do not support) is not 
> thread safe,
> > so you should NOT run Zope 2.0 with more than one thread if 
> you want to
> > use MySQL.  Someone may want to patch the MySQLDA so that the whole
> > thing is wrapped in a lock, or serializes requests before the client
> > library is entered.  Either way, given that no one is 
> paying us to do
> > it, we probably won't.
> 
> Which database adapters are thread safe? I don't see this information
> anywhere on the web site, it'd be nice to know. :)
> 

Chris is still evaluating this question.  We'll let you know as soon as
we know.  On a similar note, there will be a handful of DAs that we
support, all others will be continue to be unsupported, and probably
unthreadsafe unless someone patched them up.

(What inspires us to support a DA you ask?  Answer: $$$)

-Michel

> Thanks,
> 
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> John Eikenberry
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