Re: pgsql: Simplify validate_exec() by using access(2) to check file

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Are there any outside code modifications now that this is thread-safe?
> > I can't find any myself.
>
> I only saw the note to not trust the function in threadable code.
> It might let us do some things later, but there doesn't seem to be
> an immediate application.

Thanks.  That's what I thought too. We do have some code in libpq to
handle non-thread-safe functions (by taking a thread lock), but I didn't
see any cases where we did that when we called this code.

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