| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: VC2005 build and pthreads |
| Date: | 2007-02-05 17:42:00 |
| Message-ID: | 20070205174200.GE4811@svana.org |
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:34:23AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> > That's true, but I think it would be worthwhile to invert the switch to
> > be --disable-thread-safety, since the number of people who don't
> > understand the problem far outweigh the cost of the switch.
>
> I'd vote against that unless it were done only for Linux, and personally
> I think a platform-dependent default for this might be unreasonably
> confusing.
Well, it's already platform specific, Win32 removes the option
altogether (apparently). Which would be another option.
However, it only trips people up occasionally, so I'm not going to push
it.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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