Re: Andres Freund 2017-05-30 <20170530161541.koj5xbvvovrrtxtd@alap3.anarazel.de>
> I think we can fix this easily enough in Citus, postgis, and whatever.
> But it's not a particularly good user/developer experience, and
> presumably is going to become more and more common. On x86 there
> shouldn't be a difference in efficiency between the two, but some others
> will see some. Given that most distributions switched to building the
> main executables with -fPIE anyway, to allow for ASLR, it seems unlikely
> that the intra extension overhead is going to be very meaningful in
> comparison.
My main point here would be that we are already setting this for all
extensions for sparc and sparc64, so s390(x) would just follow suit.
-fPIC is the default in Debian now, see the discussion starting at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/05/msg00028.html
including the Fedora: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/05/msg00219.html
and Ubuntu: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/05/msg00225.html
situation, which all do that.
Christoph
