Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to

From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to
Date: 2003-08-04 16:40:17
Message-ID: 78740000.1060015217@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net
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--On Monday, August 04, 2003 12:30:32 -0400 Bruce Momjian
<pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

>
> We decided to make separate thread/nonthread libraries if the threading
> requires any special flags --- we haven't done that yet, and only
> configure controls it.
That will be a POLA (principle of least astonishment) violation on UnixWare.

LER

>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>>
>>
>> --On Monday, August 04, 2003 17:54:41 +0200 Peter Eisentraut
>> <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> > Bruce Momjian writes:
>> >
>> >> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> >> > Is it intended that libpq is always compiled with the so-called
>> >> > "thread-safe" compiler option, regardless of whether I used
>> >> > --enable-thread-thing?
>> >>
>> >> It certainly should not be doing that, but my OS has no thread flags,
>> >> so I am not seeing it here. What exactly do you see?
>> >
>> > It's using -D_REENTRANT etc. (linux template) when compiling libpq.
>> I think we WANT to do that for libpq so it can be used in a threaded
>> app, since there
>> is no libc_r on Linux to the best of my knowledge.
>>
>> I intend that to happen on UnixWare as well.
>>
>> LER
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>

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