2009/11/20 Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net>: > 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.
Yes, of course. Silently turning it off would be a really really bad idea. > If enough platforms don't support thread-safety, this could > become annoying. Agreed. > 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. Well, the buildfarm would tell us that, no? :) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
