| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> |
| Cc: | 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 23:37:42 |
| Message-ID: | 200308062337.h76NbgP24003@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Dann Corbit wrote:
> > Perhaps by 7.5 we can enable the above logic by default.
> >
> > However, I do think we will have to mention the platforms
> > that aren't thread-safe some day, of course, once we enable
> > thread-safe by default.
>
> Perhaps a portable BSD licensed threading library could be included for
> platforms that do not have a safe thread interface.
>
> Is there a known list of functions with reentrancy problems?
That seems pretty heavy. I think we could support a 3rd party thread
interface if someone wanted to write one, or perhaps it would just work
out of the box, and we could test for its existance via configure.
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