Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The best I have been able to tell is that none of our .so's are anywhere
>> near large enough to require -fPIC.
> One question would be what happens when it fails? Does it fail visibly
> so we would hear about it? If so, we can take the risk.
Yes, you'd get a link failure. On the platforms I've seen it on (HPUX
at least, on an old project with .so's in the dozens-of-megabytes range)
the error message is pretty specific that you should have used -fPIC.
regards, tom lane