Re: Thread safety

On 27 nov 2008, at 13.00, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> Can someone remind me why we have --enable-thread-safety? As
>>> opposed to
>>> it being default and having --disable-thread-safety.
>>
>> I don't have any numbers or a roster to support this, but I suppose
>> that
>> thread-safety is not supported on some platforms. So either we'd
>> have
>> to have diverging defaults or annoy those unsupported platforms
>> with a
>> mandatory switch.
>
> We could try switching it for a day and see what happens to the
> buildfarm ... that would give us an idea of how many platforms are not
> prepared.
>
+1.

It would be very good to have it ok by default if we cab, and that
seems luke a good way to see if it's reasonable...

/Magnus