Subject: Re: Threading problems
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@NetBSD.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/23/2004 22:05:55
Bill Studenmund wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:47:38PM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> > Daniel Carosone wrote:
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> > > There's active work in pkgsrc right now to address this issue, though
> > > I haven't been following it closely; perhaps someone else can comment
> > > in more detail.  In the meantime, please check for this, and perhaps
> > > try rebuilding the relevant pkg's from -current pkgsrc?
> > 
> > Yeah, the libpthread lossage is becoming quite a big problem. Is there
> > no way to avoid the crash when loading threaded object module
> > to non-threaded application? We urgently need to come up with
> > pkgsrc solution for this.
> 
> No, there is no way to avoid the crash. Please see the follow-up I posted 
> to darcy@. The server needed to have been compiled with libpthread from 
> the beginning.

But PostgreSQL server itself does not use threads at all, it's using fork()
and shared memory.

Jaromir 
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