Re: TCL fix in HEAD - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: TCL fix in HEAD
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Msg-id 21383.1191021212@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: TCL fix in HEAD  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Marshall, Steve wrote:
>> This is probably not a big problem, since TCL was not commonly compiled
>> with multithreading enabled prior to 8.4.  However, perhaps there should
>> be a warning in the documentation on PL/TCL directing users to avoid
>> linking postgresql against TCL libraries earlier than 8.4 that have
>> multithreading enabled?

> Can you send in a patch against pltcl.sgml?

I'm not sure there's much point, as someone using a PG release new
enough to contain such a disclaimer is probably also using a reasonably
new Tcl.  (Tcl 8.4 was released five years ago...)

            regards, tom lane

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