enable-thread-safety defaults?

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: enable-thread-safety defaults?
Date: 2009-11-20 01:41:37
Message-ID: 9837222c0911191741u23c777acu45bfffaeb2b2b7f5@mail.gmail.com
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Is there any actual reason why we are building without thread safety
by default on most platforms? Seems I get asked that every time
somebody forgets to add a "--enable-thread-safety". Wouldn't it be
more logical to have that be the default, and provide
"--disable-thread-safety" if there are platforms that still don't
support it?

AFAIK pretty much all binary packages will do it by default, but it's
easy to forget when building from source....

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