From: Warren Young
Date: July 7 2008 8:09pm
Subject: Re: Thread-awareness vs thread-safety
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On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Rick Gutleber wrote:

> do I need to use the "thread-aware" version of the library if I am  
> not sharing connections or data structures or anything from MySQL++  
> across threads?

Yes, because there are other considerations, like ensuring that the  
code uses reentrancy-safe versions of standard library functions.

Your practice of keeping information about a DB connection within a  
single thread will help you to avoid a lot of pain, but doesn't in  
itself let you ignore thread safety issues.