Re: thread safety tests

Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 6/10/2004 2:11 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> Are people OK with requiring PGUSER, $USER, $LOGNAME, or the username to
> >> be supplied by the connection string in libpq on platforms that want
> >> threads and don't have getpwuid_r() (Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.)?
> > 
> > AFAICS that was not what Jan was suggesting at all.  I don't like it
> > either --- changing the user-visible behavior based on whether we think
> > the platform is thread-safe or not is horrid.
> > 
> > What I understood Jan to be saying is that we should be willing to build
> > the most thread-safe approximation we can when --enable-thread-safety
> > is requested.  Don't bomb out if you don't have getpwuid_r, just give
> > a warning and then use getpwuid.
> 
> Make it so that --enable-thread-safety bombs out, but make another 
> --enable-thread-safey-anyway work the way Tom descibed it.

Done as --enable-thread-safety-force.

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