Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Thread safetyness

Patch applied. Autoconf run. Thanks.

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Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
> > Sent: 28 August 2005 22:56
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Thread safetyness
> >
> >
> > Well, actually I tried to run configure --enable-thread-safety on a
> > MinGW platform and got:
> >
> > configure: error: pthread.h not found, required for
> > --enable-thread-safety
> > You need to run the 'configure' program first. See the file
> > 'INSTALL' for installation instructions.
> > make: *** [all] Error 1
> >
> > Can we not compile --enable-thread-safety without pthreads on
> > Win32? I
> > am thinking that is true because we are going to need
> > pthreads for ecpg.
>
> Correct - it is needed for ecpg, but not libpq.
>
> > > Anyhoo, I can patch ecpglib to use the full pthreads with
> > my hack above
> > > if people think that is the way to go for the time being.
> >
> > OK.
> >
>
> Attached (without the hack). Libpq will use it's minimal pthread
> implementation, ecpg will use pthreadGC2.
>
> You'll need to run autoconf after applying.
>
> Regards, Dave.

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