On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > 2009/11/20 Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net>: >> On fre, 2009-11-20 at 02:41 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: >>> Is there any actual reason why we are building without thread safety >>> by default on most platforms? >> >> Consistent defaults on all platforms? > > So why do we have largefile enabled by default? And zlib? And readline?
Well those things are user interface options. They don't change the libpq api. However given that distributions set this option I don't see much point in worrying about the api being inconsistent. I agree that having libpq being thread-safe would be a sensible default. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
