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Re: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC

William K. Volkman <wkv@hiscorp.net>

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From: "William K. Volkman" <wkv@hiscorp.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-17T01:01:39Z
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The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>> 
> But, with shared libraries, are you really pulling in a "whole
> thread-support library"?  My understanding of shared libraries (altho it
> may be totally off) was that instead of pulling in a whole library, you
> pulled in the bits that you needed, pretty much as you needed them ...

Just by making a thread call libc changes personality to use thread
safe routines (I.E. add mutex locking).  Use one thread feature, get
the whole set...which may not be that bad.
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