Jan Wieck wrote: > On 6/10/2004 2:11 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Are people OK with requiring PGUSER, $USER, $LOGNAME, or the username to > >> be supplied by the connection string in libpq on platforms that want > >> threads and don't have getpwuid_r() (Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.)? > > > > AFAICS that was not what Jan was suggesting at all. I don't like it > > either --- changing the user-visible behavior based on whether we think > > the platform is thread-safe or not is horrid. > > > > What I understood Jan to be saying is that we should be willing to build > > the most thread-safe approximation we can when --enable-thread-safety > > is requested. Don't bomb out if you don't have getpwuid_r, just give > > a warning and then use getpwuid. > > Make it so that --enable-thread-safety bombs out, but make another > --enable-thread-safey-anyway work the way Tom descibed it.
Sure, we can do that by just not running the thread_test program. In fact a cross-compile already skips running the test. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster