Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > >> Tom Lane wrote: > >>> I'm not really in favor of this ... I think you are trying to make the > >>> backend do something that will never work reliably. > > > Do we want to make this change for 8.1? > > I don't want to do it at all. The justification given is to allow the > backend to support multithreading introduced by an add-on library, which > is a hopeless cause. Removing "static" from that variable declaration > is surely a cheap enough change, but what about the next request, and > the one after that?
Well, I have not seen the next request yet, but it seems harmless for a useful extension to the database, namely PL/Java. I do believe this is one of the reasons PL/J took a different approach, though. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
