Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 10/22/2004 3:30 PM, Ed L. wrote:
> 
> > Clean build of pgsql 7.4.5 on HPUX B.11.23 on ia64 with 
> > --enable-thread-safety fails ...   :(
> > 
> > $uname -a
> > HP-UX ... B.11.23 U ia64 0144848471 unlimited-user license
> > 
> > $cd postgresql-7.4.5
> > $./configure --enable-thread-safety --without-readline --without-zlib
> > ...
> > checking pthread.h usability... yes
> > checking pthread.h presence... yes
> > checking for pthread.h... yes
> > configure: error:
> > Cannot enable threads on your platform.
> 
> Unfortunately that doesn't mean that the switch is required to cause 
> libpq to behave nicely for the Slony purposes. Can someone please test 
> if Slony works on HP-UX even if PostgreSQL is NOT configured with 
> --enable-thread-safety ?

I believe Slony always needs threading, it just can be used even if the
OS doesn't fully support all thread-safe functions, so on 8.0 you use
--thread_safety_force.  Jan, is that correct?

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