library policy question

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: library policy question
Date: 2000-03-07 14:57:45
Message-ID: 20000307155745.A1251@fam-meskes.de
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What exactly is our policy towards global variables in libraries? I take is
these variables are harmless in multi tasking operation as each process has
its seperate data space. But they may do harm in multi threading. But then
libpq are is not suitable for multi threading, is it?

Michael
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