Re: VC2005 build and pthreads - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: VC2005 build and pthreads
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Msg-id 20070204173616.GA377@svana.org
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In response to Re: VC2005 build and pthreads  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: VC2005 build and pthreads  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:05:41PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Anyway. We hard-code thread-safety to on for Win32, because win32 is a
> threaded platform in general - almost everything can be exposed to
> threading even if they don't want it. For example a VB program that has
> no threading at all can still run with multiple threads because of the
> framework.

It'd be nice if we could do the same for some Unix platofrms like
Linux. The C library uses threads internally, and there's no actual
downside to enabling thread safety there, except removing a few failure
modes.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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