Re: ASLR support for Postgres12 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ASLR support for Postgres12
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Msg-id 29964.1584974743@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to ASLR support for Postgres12  ("Joel Mariadasan (jomariad)" <jomariad@cisco.com>)
Responses RE: ASLR support for Postgres12  ("Joel Mariadasan (jomariad)" <jomariad@cisco.com>)
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"Joel Mariadasan (jomariad)" <jomariad@cisco.com> writes:
> We would like to know if there is a roadmap to enable ASLR support for postgre.

Not on Windows --- since that OS doesn't support fork(), it's too
difficult to get different child processes to map shared memory
at the same address if ASLR is active.

If that feature is important to you, use a different operating
system.

            regards, tom lane



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