Re: PIKE_MODULE_INIT/EXIT in a normal pgsql.pike file

Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>However, in order to get this flying I basically need to run
>a separate pgsql backend.  Currently I simply start up a new one in a separate
>thread for every connection to the database.
>But, these could be shared by all pgsql connections.

>So, is there some kind of PIKE_MODULE_INIT/EXIT or C-static equivalent
>which I could use to make sure that I only create at most one thread
>for this?

Despite the overwhelming response to this question, I tried to investigate
on my own, and basically I came up with (drumroll):

	getenv()/putenv()

It's ugly, but it seems to be the only way to have some kind of global
state over which different threads can meet and sync up.
However, I'd need a way to serialise a reference to an object (a shared
backend, to be precise).

Any ideas?
Or can we have some kind of Master.get() and Master.set() equivalent
to the Thread.Local set which would fill this gap?
-- 
Stephen.