Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: >> Can someone remind me why we have --enable-thread-safety? As opposed to >> it being default and having --disable-thread-safety. > > I don't have any numbers or a roster to support this, but I suppose that > thread-safety is not supported on some platforms. So either we'd have > to have diverging defaults or annoy those unsupported platforms with a > mandatory switch.
We could try switching it for a day and see what happens to the buildfarm ... that would give us an idea of how many platforms are not prepared. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
