--enable-thread-safety is new in PG 7.4, and is described in the release notes like this -
- libpq and ECPG applications are now fully thread-safe
- While previous libpq releases already supported threads, this release improves thread safety by fixing some non-thread-safe code that was used during database connection startup. The configure option --enable-thread-safety must be used to enable this feature.
and the install guide -
- --enable-thread-safety
- Make the client libraries thread-safe. This allows concurrent threads in libpq and ECPG programs to safely control their private connection handles.
Since nspostgres gets it's Postgres-ness from libpq, there is a potential issue if libpq is not thread safe and 2 threads silmultaneously try to open connections to the database. I don't know in detail how nspostgres handles recycling database connections, and given that database connections are long-lived in AOLserver it's probably pretty hard to trigger any lossage through this if it's even possible at all, but still...
