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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:50:17 -0800
From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
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To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
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Subject: Re: libgcc double-free, backend won't die
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> ...Since you've now shown that OpenBabel is
>>> multithreaded, then that's a much more likely cause.
>> Can you elaborate?  Are multithreaded libraries not allowed to be
>> linked to Postgres?
> 
> Absolutely not.

Ok, thanks, I'll work on recompiling OpenBabel without thread support.

Since I'm not a Postgres developer, perhaps one of the maintainers could update the Postgres manual.  In chapter 32.9.6, it says,

  "To be precise, a shared library needs to be created."

This should be amended to say,

  "To be precise, a non-threaded, shared library needs to be created."

Cheers,
Craig