Re: Thread safety - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Thread safety
Date
Msg-id 20081127120039.GB4586@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Thread safety  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Thread safety  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

We could try switching it for a day and see what happens to the
buildfarm ... that would give us an idea of how many platforms are not
prepared.

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