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From: Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com>
Organization: Utiba
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:20:06 +1000
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:18 am, Greg Stark wrote:
> Well if you're only going to do one threading API you may as well pick the
> POSIX standard. Windows threading is only useful for windows, POSIX
> threading would work on every other OS, Solaris, Linux, BSD, etc.
>
> Is there a POSIX threads wrapper for windows?

Yes and no... there's no native POSIX thread wrapper, if that's what you me=
an=20
(say like pthreads on OSF wraps DECThreads AFAIK).=20

There's a  development effort here (http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win3=
2/)=20
to help those using Windows, but if it was me, I'd probably stick to native=
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Windows threads. It's not going to be on people's machines by default.

Regards, Philip.