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

From Douglas McNaught
Subject Re: VC2005 build and pthreads
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Msg-id 8764agoara.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org
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In response to Re: VC2005 build and pthreads  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: VC2005 build and pthreads  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: VC2005 build and pthreads  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:

> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>> 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.
>
> I was not aware this was true on Linux.

It uses threads at least for the POSIX AIO calls--I'm not sure what
else.

-Doug


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