| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Thread safety |
| Date: | 2008-11-27 12:00:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20081127120039.GB4586@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Can someone remind me why we have --enable-thread-safety? As opposed to
>> it being default and having --disable-thread-safety.
>
> I don't have any numbers or a roster to support this, but I suppose that
> thread-safety is not supported on some platforms. So either we'd have
> to have diverging defaults or annoy those unsupported platforms with a
> mandatory switch.
We could try switching it for a day and see what happens to the
buildfarm ... that would give us an idea of how many platforms are not
prepared.
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