| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>, Xu Yifeng <jamexu(at)telekbird(dot)com(dot)cn>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re[4]: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC |
| Date: | 2001-03-16 17:36:12 |
| Message-ID: | 25302.984764172@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
>> But, with shared libraries, are you really pulling in a "whole
>> thread-support library"?
> Yes, you are. On UnixWare, you need to add -Kthread, which CHANGES a LOT
> of primitives to go through threads wrappers and scheduling.
Right, it's not so much that we care about referencing another shlib,
it's that -lpthreads may cause you to get a whole new thread-aware
version of libc, with attendant overhead that we don't need or want.
regards, tom lane
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