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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-08-11T13:55:49Z
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> initdb also runs postgres a bunch of times via system(), similarly to
> pg_regress but without the "exec". Does it also need adjusting?

That shouldn't be an issue, because we're only running the single
"standalone backend" process, not a cluster.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on Linux and FreeBSD.

  2. Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on macOS.