Re: pthreads issue when compiling 7.4.8 on AIX 5.3 - Mailing list pgsql-ports

From Christopher Browne
Subject Re: pthreads issue when compiling 7.4.8 on AIX 5.3
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Msg-id m3ekb1g15l.fsf@knuth.cbbrowne.com
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In response to Re: pthreads issue when compiling 7.4.8 on AIX 5.3  ("Mohan, Ross" <RMohan@arbinet.com>)
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In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, RMohan@arbinet.com ("Mohan, Ross") transmitted:
> Sorry to be dull-minded, but since PG is not threaded (at least on AIX)
> and works fine, why would Slony (threaded or not) have a problem? There
> aren't likely to be thread-to-thread interactions, eg.

The "slon" application that performs replication *IS* a multi-threaded
application where each of those threads accesses libpq.

--enable-thread-safety is *most certainly* necessary in order for
libpq to be thread-safe so that slon can operate.

That is why "thread safety" is necessary.
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