Re: VC2005 build and pthreads

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: VC2005 build and pthreads
Date: 2007-02-05 18:11:27
Message-ID: 45C7734F.6080501@hagander.net
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:34:23AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
>>> That's true, but I think it would be worthwhile to invert the switch to
>>> be --disable-thread-safety, since the number of people who don't
>>> understand the problem far outweigh the cost of the switch.
>> I'd vote against that unless it were done only for Linux, and personally
>> I think a platform-dependent default for this might be unreasonably
>> confusing.
>
> Well, it's already platform specific, Win32 removes the option
> altogether (apparently). Which would be another option.

Visual C build only, not the MingW build. It still has the option. The
win32 binary distribution sets it though.

//Magnus

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