On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 23:32 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> According to the Debian build logs, postgres-xc compiles the
> entire
> backend with -fPIC. Not sure what sense that makes.
>
>
> Debian policy is to always use -fPIC
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.