[postgis-devel] Threading in BGWorkers

[James Sewell]

I just realised I sent this to PostGIS-devel not Postgres-hackers - I’ll
move it across!

On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 8:52 pm, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> James Sewell <james.sewell at jirotech.com> writes:
>
> >    3. it's safe for postgres to call any system library function, even
> >       ones explicitly marked as not thread safe
>
> > 3. needs to be converted to a list of possible calls - which can be done
> > and checked.
>
> "checked" how?  Presumably the issue is that posix doesn't say they are
> ok, but somehow they are.  Do you mean
>
>   checked by reading the operating system sources ont he particular
>   system you happen to be using
>
> and for this to be a local decision to exceed the normal safety
> guidelines?  Or do you mean something larger scale?
>
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