Re: threads stuff/UnixWare

--On Thursday, May 13, 2004 09:18:21 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>> The -Kpthread on all libpq using programs is the easiest way FOR NOW.
>
> 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?
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.

>
> regards, tom lane

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