Re: thread safety tests

On 6/10/2004 2:11 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Are people OK with requiring PGUSER, $USER, $LOGNAME, or the username to
>> be supplied by the connection string in libpq on platforms that want
>> threads and don't have getpwuid_r() (Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.)?
>
> AFAICS that was not what Jan was suggesting at all. I don't like it
> either --- changing the user-visible behavior based on whether we think
> the platform is thread-safe or not is horrid.
>
> What I understood Jan to be saying is that we should be willing to build
> the most thread-safe approximation we can when --enable-thread-safety
> is requested. Don't bomb out if you don't have getpwuid_r, just give
> a warning and then use getpwuid.

Make it so that --enable-thread-safety bombs out, but make another
--enable-thread-safey-anyway work the way Tom descibed it.

Jan

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