"Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > James Mansion <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Is there any particular reason not to ensure that any low-level >> threading support in libc is enabled right >> from the get-go, as a build-time option? > > Yes. > 1) It's of no value to us > 2) On many platforms there is a nonzero performance penalty And the only reason to do that would be to work around one bug in one small range of glibc versions. If you're going to use a multi-threaded library (which isn't very common since it's hard to do safely for all those other reasons) surely using a version of your OS without any thread related bugs is a better idea. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's Slony Replication support! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
