Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>, Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to
Date: 2003-08-06 23:49:10
Message-ID: 10111.1060213750@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Dann Corbit wrote:
>> Perhaps a portable BSD licensed threading library could be included for
>> platforms that do not have a safe thread interface.

> That seems pretty heavy.

It seems highly unlikely that you could band-aid threading over a libc
that wasn't thread safe. In any case, it's not our problem. People
running on such a platform are certainly not going to care whether libpq
is thread-safe or not.

regards, tom lane

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