Re: Thread-safe configuration option appears to

--On Monday, August 04, 2003 12:30:32 -0400 Bruce Momjian 
<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

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> We decided to make separate thread/nonthread libraries if the threading
> requires any special flags --- we haven't done that yet, and only
> configure controls it.
That will be a POLA (principle of least astonishment) violation on UnixWare.

LER

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> Larry Rosenman wrote:
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>> --On Monday, August 04, 2003 17:54:41 +0200 Peter Eisentraut
>> <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
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>> > Bruce Momjian writes:
>> >
>> >> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> >> > Is it intended that libpq is always compiled with the so-called
>> >> > "thread-safe" compiler option, regardless of whether I used
>> >> > --enable-thread-thing?
>> >>
>> >> It certainly should not be doing that, but my OS has no thread flags,
>> >> so I am not seeing it here.  What exactly do you see?
>> >
>> > It's using -D_REENTRANT etc. (linux template) when compiling libpq.
>> I think we WANT to do that for libpq so it can be used in a threaded
>> app,  since there
>> is no libc_r on Linux to the best of my knowledge.
>>
>> I intend that to happen on UnixWare as well.
>>
>> LER
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