Re: --enable-thread-safety? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: --enable-thread-safety?
Date
Msg-id 200505110153.j4B1rBb16327@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to --enable-thread-safety?  (Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>)
Responses Re: --enable-thread-safety?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Need a piece of advice here. I'm wrapping up the ports for FreeBSD, and jus 
> wonder if it is perhaps clever to always add --enable-thread-safety to the 
> configure args. Is there a big enough penalty for having it off by default, 
> or can I just have it on always?

I don't think there is any real penalty in PostgreSQL for having it on. 
I don't know what the operating system overhead is on FreeBSD.

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