Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:07 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> If someone out there is not enabling any of that stuff
>>> because their system doesn't like threads, they can use
>>> --disable-thread-safety to avoid the effects of this change.
>> No, that's nonsense; --disable-thread-safety only affects what happens
>> on the frontend side.
> That's exactly what I'm talking about changing. With the patch, BE's
> LDAP library variant would also be controlled by that configure
> switch, so it would always match the FE. Almost all users would
> continue to choose libldap_r.so for the FE, so they'd start getting
> that in the BE too (if they didn't already due to distro-supplied
> symlinks). People using --disable-thread-safety would continue to get
> libldap.so for FE and BE, as they do today.
Ah, I see. Seems reasonable.
I still wish we could confirm this fixes the reported problem before
we pull the trigger.
regards, tom lane
