Re: enable-thread-safety defaults?
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-11-20T14:25:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Let me be more verbose: I would assume that we want the configure > defaults to be the same on all platforms. We fail by default, for > example, if zlib and readline are not there, but you can turn them off > explicitly. If we turn thread-safety on by default, we will/should fail > if thread-safety is not supported, requiring the user to turn it off > explicitly. If enough platforms don't support thread-safety, this could > become annoying. > > I don't have a good overview over how many platforms would be affected, > and I could in general support changing the default, but I'm just laying > down one possible constraint. > > Well, if we turn it on by default maybe the buildfarm will tell us who the major culprits are :-) cheers andrew