Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Tripple-yuck.  :-)
> 
> It doesn't seem to me that we should take on the job of providing
> thread-safe implementations of basic libc functions.  If a particular
> OS cannot manage to offer that functionality, then we should mark it
> not-thread-safe and move on.  Persons unhappy with this labeling must
> take it up with their OS developers, not us.

We do actually have a way to report OS thread failure to the user --- if
they ask for --enable-thread-safety, we just throw an error.

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