Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I'm not really in favor of this ... I think you are trying to make the
>>> backend do something that will never work reliably.
> Do we want to make this change for 8.1?
I don't want to do it at all. The justification given is to allow the
backend to support multithreading introduced by an add-on library, which
is a hopeless cause. Removing "static" from that variable declaration
is surely a cheap enough change, but what about the next request, and
the one after that?
regards, tom lane
