From c63c62a18a2b434284d3438bcb2be0893d8fcce3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:46:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #18440 -- Pointed out that ReportLab is not thread
 safe. Thanks, jens@lundstroem.com

---
 docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt b/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt
index 55f80bb4cc..e7e4bdcfa5 100644
--- a/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/outputting-pdf.txt
@@ -100,6 +100,12 @@ mention:
 * Finally, it's important to call ``showPage()`` and ``save()`` on the PDF
   file.
 
+.. note::
+
+    ReportLab is not thread-safe. Some of our users have reported odd issues
+    with building PDF-generating Django views that are accessed by many people
+    at the same time.
+
 Complex PDFs
 ============