Marshall, Steve wrote: > >The recent TCL patch assumed Tcl_NotifierProcs.initNotifierProc > >was added in TCL 8.2: > >In fact it was added in 8.4 so I have modified the CVS with > >the following patch. > > I confirmed this against the 8.2.5 release. Sorry I did not notice that > when I initially created the patch. > > While the patch will not work for the earlier releases, it should be > noted that the multithhreading problem still exists when linking > postgresql against TCL 8.2 and 8.3 libraries that are compiled with the > preprocessor symbol TCL_THREADS defined. Unfortunately, we cannot > override the initNotifier behavior in those releases, so we don't have a > workable solution. > > This is probably not a big problem, since TCL was not commonly compiled > with multithreading enabled prior to 8.4. However, perhaps there should > be a warning in the documentation on PL/TCL directing users to avoid > linking postgresql against TCL libraries earlier than 8.4 that have > multithreading enabled?
Can you send in a patch against pltcl.sgml? -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
