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Re: RTLD_LAZY considered harmful (Re: pltlc and pltlcu problems)

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>, Murray Prior Hobbs <murray@efone.com>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-01-20T19:10:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> However I'm a bit scared to do that at this late stage of the release
> cycle, because perhaps some of these platforms don't support the full
> dlopen() API.  Comments?  Can anyone test whether RTLD_NOW works on
> any of the above-mentioned ports?

I can confirm that RTLD_NOW exists on BSD/OS.  Can we do:

	#ifdef RTLD_NOW 
	use RTLD_NOW 
	#else 
	whatever_is_there_now
	#endif

in those ports at least for 7.2 so we can be sure we don't get failures.


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