Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?
Date: 2021-08-09 17:43:03
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYA0v+gQxNT94Ru59=_v=Ha-8eOieKtxu+37gq4TZ7h=g@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 1:30 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> How common is to get a failure? I know I've run tests under
> EXEC_BACKEND and not seen any failures. Not many runs though.

On macOS, failures are extremely common. Sometimes I have to run
simple tests many times to get even one success. The proposal on the
table won't help with that problem since it's Linux-specific, but if
there's any way to do something similar on macOS it would be a _huge_
help.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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