| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Philip Yarra <philip(at)utiba(dot)com>, ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Unixware Patch (Was: Re: Beta2 Tag'd and Bundled ...) |
| Date: | 2003-09-10 04:15:17 |
| Message-ID: | 200309100415.h8A4FI613600@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tripple-yuck. :-)
>
> It doesn't seem to me that we should take on the job of providing
> thread-safe implementations of basic libc functions. If a particular
> OS cannot manage to offer that functionality, then we should mark it
> not-thread-safe and move on. Persons unhappy with this labeling must
> take it up with their OS developers, not us.
We do actually have a way to report OS thread failure to the user --- if
they ask for --enable-thread-safety, we just throw an error.
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