Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> I have heard that the reentrant libc is significantly worse-performing
>> than the non-reentrant one on some platforms. This is not real hard
>> to believe, since functions as common as malloc() will need locking
>> overhead if they think they might be in a multithreaded environment.
> Then maybe we should make a libpq and a libpq_r, etc.
That would be fine with me ... although it's only worth doing if the
platform has a libc and a libc_r. Shall we use the existence of libc_r
to drive this choice?
regards, tom lane