Re: pgsql: Implement error checking for pthreads calls in thread-safe mode.

"Magnus Hagander" <mha@postgresql.org> writes:

> Log Message:
> -----------
> Implement error checking for pthreads calls in thread-safe mode. They really
> should always succeed, but in the likely event of a failure we would
> previously fall through *without locking* - the new code will exit(1).
>
> Printing the error message on stderr will not work for all applications, but
> it's better than nothing at all - and our API doesn't provide a way to return
> the error to the caller.

If you want to print an error I think you have to use write(2) here instead of
fprintf. if pthread is cocked up then fprintf is going to have trouble locking
the buffer.

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