Re: threads stuff/UnixWare

Larry Rosenman wrote:
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> --On Thursday, May 13, 2004 09:18:21 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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> > Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
> >> I did get a note from my SCO contacts that they are looking into how
> >> to make it easier for stuff to be threads ready, but I don't expect
> >> that to be ready for 7.5 release.
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> >> The -Kpthread on all libpq using programs is the easiest way FOR NOW.
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> > Hmm. If there is work happening at the platform level to improve
> > matters, then I'd definitely vote for taking the simplest solution
> > (ie -Kpthread everywhere) for now. We can always do all that other
> > work later if nothing gets fixed; but why invest a lot of work for
> > what might be only a short-term problem?
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> I agree. the only issue is how to set up our makefiles to only do the
> -Kpthread/-pthreads(gcc) flags on the client code, and not do it for
> the backend itself.

I think mixing a pgport that has thread flags with a backend that does
not is more risky than just compiling everything with the same thread
flags.

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