Re: Re[4]: [HACKERS] Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

[Tom Lane]

Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But, with shared libraries, are you really pulling in a "whole
>> thread-support library"?

> Yes, you are.  On UnixWare, you need to add -Kthread, which CHANGES a LOT 
> of primitives to go through threads wrappers and scheduling.

Right, it's not so much that we care about referencing another shlib,
it's that -lpthreads may cause you to get a whole new thread-aware
version of libc, with attendant overhead that we don't need or want.

                        regards, tom lane

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