name of configure threading option

--On Thursday, July 24, 2003 21:42:59 -0400 Bruce Momjian
<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

Should the new threading configure option be called:

--enable-thread-safeness

or

--enable-thread-safety

or something else? Someone was asking me about the validity of the word
safeness.

the latter, IMHO. If I count for anything.

LER

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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Should the new threading configure option be called:
--enable-thread-safeness
or
--enable-thread-safety

safety is a common word, safeness isn't. (The OED has entries for both,
but the entry for safety is about 10x longer; a smaller dictionary I
consulted doesn't list safeness at all.)

regards, tom lane

Change made.

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Tom Lane wrote:

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Should the new threading configure option be called:
--enable-thread-safeness
or
--enable-thread-safety

safety is a common word, safeness isn't. (The OED has entries for both,
but the entry for safety is about 10x longer; a smaller dictionary I
consulted doesn't list safeness at all.)

regards, tom lane

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Actually, I never made the change until now. I thought I had already
did it. Sorry.

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pgman wrote:

Change made.

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Tom Lane wrote:

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Should the new threading configure option be called:
--enable-thread-safeness
or
--enable-thread-safety

safety is a common word, safeness isn't. (The OED has entries for both,
but the entry for safety is about 10x longer; a smaller dictionary I
consulted doesn't list safeness at all.)

regards, tom lane

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