Re: Building on S390

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, postgres-xc-developers(at)lists(dot)sourceforge(dot)net
Subject: Re: Building on S390
Date: 2013-11-25 01:23:29
Message-ID: 1385342609.31144.2.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 11:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > My point is, they compile the *backend* as position-independent
> code.
> > The backend is not a shared library. Maybe it is in Postgres-XC?
> But
> > at least this makes their build process significantly different, so
> it's
> > doubtful that this is a PG-proper issue.
>
> Note that that's not an unreasonable decision in itself, if it's done
> pursuant to some distro policy that daemons should run with ASLR
> enabled.

Right. False alarm.

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