Re: --enable-thread-safety on Win32

Dave Page wrote:
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us] 
> > Sent: 28 July 2005 02:39
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: PostgreSQL-development
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] --enable-thread-safety on Win32
> > 
> > Dave Page wrote:
> > > Did anyone get a chance to think about this? I'd like to 
> > fix this for
> > > 8.1, but it should also make life easy with the new libpq based ODBC
> > > driver improvements if I can produce an appropriate patch 
> > sooner rather
> > > than later!
> > 
> > I have thought about it and it needs to be addressed before 8.1 final,
> > but I don't have time at the moment.
> 
> I'm happy to work on it if we can agree on the best way forward :-)

Uh, good question.  As I remember the issue is that there are too many
unix-isms in the test program (thread creation) that are not actually
used in libpq.  I would like to see how hard it would be to add #ifdefs
to get the test program to run on Win32.

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