Re: PostgreSQL for VAX on NetBSD/OpenBSD

On 2014-06-29 12:20:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > BTW, it sure looks like the part of ACX_PTHREAD beginning with
> > # Various other checks:
> > if test "x$acx_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
> > (lines 163..210 in HEAD's acx_pthread.m4) is dead code.
>
> On closer inspection, this has been broken since commit
> e48322a6d6cfce1ec52ab303441df329ddbc04d1, which is just barely short of
> its tenth birthday. The reason we've not noticed is that Postgres makes
> no use of PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE, nor of PTHREAD_CC, nor of HAVE_PTHREAD,
> nor of the success/failure options for ACX_PTHREAD.
>
> I'm tempted to just rip out all the useless code rather than fix the
> logic bug as such. OTOH, that might complicate updating to more recent
> versions of the original Autoconf macro. On the third hand, we've not
> bothered to do that in ten years either.

Rip it out, maye leaving a comment inplace like
/* upstream tests for stuff we don't need here */

in its place. Since there have been a number of changes to the file,
one large missing hunk shouldn't make the task of syncing measurably
more difficult.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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