| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Thread safety |
| Date: | 2008-11-27 09:37:48 |
| Message-ID: | 492E6A6C.4030905@gmx.net |
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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. The situation is quite similar in my view to the
integer datetimes switch: we need a very high level of platform support
before turning this on by default.
(I suppose there was initially also some general uncertainty about the
maturity of thread things, but I think we can consider that satisfied by
now.)
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