We got an interesting report on the testers list today:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-testers/2009-12/msg00000.php

Basically, configure failed on their OpenBSD system because thread safety is on but the libxml2 wasn't compiled with threaded support: http://xmlsoft.org/threads.html

Disabling either feature (no --with-libxml or --disable-thread-safety) gives a working build.

I wonder if it's worthwhile to document this coupling between thread safety and libxml2 in either http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/install-procedure.html or even the release notes. It seems quite likely to bite someone else again the future.

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Greg Smith    2ndQuadrant   Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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