Re: threads stuff/UnixWare

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Yes, there would still be the overhead, because the functions that 
> libthread wraps would go through that overhead since libthread does it's 
> magic at _ini time.
> 
> Y'all were concerned with overhead in previous discussions.
> 
> If you want to link the backend with -Kpthread, you can, but basically the
> client code (initdb, et al) should be -Kpthread, and the backend should NOT
> since there are no threads calls in the backend.
> 
> >
> > I am afraid of libpgport.  Those object files get used by the backend,
> > and by the client stuff.  Larry can -K and non-K object files be mixed
> > in the same binary?
> Yes, they can.
> 
> But, you MUST link ANY pthread_* using code with -K pthread.

OK, can someone come up with a cute way to add flags only to things that
use libpq, meaning /interfaces and /bin?

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