Re: TCL fix in HEAD

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Marshall, Steve" <smarshall(at)wsi(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TCL fix in HEAD
Date: 2007-09-28 23:13:32
Message-ID: 21383.1191021212@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Marshall, Steve wrote:
>> This is probably not a big problem, since TCL was not commonly compiled
>> with multithreading enabled prior to 8.4. However, perhaps there should
>> be a warning in the documentation on PL/TCL directing users to avoid
>> linking postgresql against TCL libraries earlier than 8.4 that have
>> multithreading enabled?

> Can you send in a patch against pltcl.sgml?

I'm not sure there's much point, as someone using a PG release new
enough to contain such a disclaimer is probably also using a reasonably
new Tcl. (Tcl 8.4 was released five years ago...)

regards, tom lane

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