On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:34:23AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> > That's true, but I think it would be worthwhile to invert the switch to
> > be --disable-thread-safety, since the number of people who don't
> > understand the problem far outweigh the cost of the switch.
>
> I'd vote against that unless it were done only for Linux, and personally
> I think a platform-dependent default for this might be unreasonably
> confusing.
Well, it's already platform specific, Win32 removes the option
altogether (apparently). Which would be another option.
However, it only trips people up occasionally, so I'm not going to push
it.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.