On 22.11.21 23:32, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The easier approach for this class of issues is to use the linker option
>> -Bsymbolic.
> I don't recall details, but we've previously rejected the idea of
> trying to use -Bsymbolic widely; apparently it has undesirable
> side-effects on some platforms. See commit message for e3d77ea6b
> (hopefully there's some detail in the email thread [1]). It sounds
> like you're not actually proposing that, but I thought it would be
> a good idea to note the hazard here.
Also, IIRC, -Bsymbolic was once frowned upon by packaging policies,
since it prevents use of LD_PRELOAD. I'm not sure what the current
thinking there is, however.
