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2021-07-24Remove configure-time thread safety checking (thread_test.c).Tom Lane
This testing was useful when it was written, nigh twenty years ago, but it seems fairly pointless for any platform built in the last dozen or more years. (Compare also the comments at 8a2121185.) Also we now have reports that the test program itself fails under ThreadSanitizer. Rather than invest effort in fixing it, let's just drop it, and assume that the few people who still care already know they need to use --disable-thread-safety. Back-patch into v14, for consistency with 8a2121185. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADhDkKzPSiNvA3Hyq+wSR_icuPmazG0cFe=YnC3U-CFcYLc8Xw@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-15Portability fixes for sigwait.Thomas Munro
Build farm animals running ancient HPUX and Solaris have a non-standard sigwait() from draft versions of POSIX, so they didn't like commit 7c09d279. To avoid the problem in general, only try to use sigwait() if it's declared by <signal.h> and matches the expected declaration. To select the modern declaration on Solaris (even in non-threaded programs), move -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS into the right place to affect all translation units. Also fix the error checking. Modern sigwait() doesn't set errno. Thanks to Tom Lane for help with this. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3187588.1626136248%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-01-02Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-21Remove the option to build thread_test.c outside configure.Tom Lane
Theoretically one could go into src/test/thread and build/run this program there. In practice, that hasn't worked since 96bf88d52, and probably much longer on some platforms (likely including just the sort of hoary leftovers where this test might be of interest). While it wouldn't be too hard to repair the breakage, the fact that nobody has noticed for two years shows that there is zero usefulness in maintaining this build pathway. Let's get rid of it and decree that thread_test.c is *only* meant to be built/used in configure. Given that decision, it makes sense to put thread_test.c under config/ and get rid of src/test/thread altogether, so that's what I did. In passing, update src/test/README, which had been ignored by some not-so-recent additions of subdirectories. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/227659.1603041612@sss.pgh.pa.us