On fre, 2009-11-20 at 08:39 +0100, Magnus Hagander 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?
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. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
