Re: Unixware Patch (Was: Re: Beta2 Tag'd and Bundled ...)

Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>

From: Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>

To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2003-09-02T17:29:25Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian writes:
 > Right.  We can't assume because a *_r function is missing that the
 > normal function is thread-safe.

I recon i'll get blue in the face before long, and one of you guys
will fly over to Scotland to give me a good kicking!... But'll say it
again anyway...

That's not our concern - if the OS isn't thread safe we can't do
anything about it, and to worry about it is an enormous waste of
development time.

Who do you think is interested in a thread-safe libpq on a
non-thread-safe OS?

L.