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

From Joel Mariadasan (jomariad)
Subject RE: ASLR support for Postgres12
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In response to Re: ASLR support for Postgres12  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thanks Tom for the quick Update.

Can you please point me to a link or give the list of OSes where ASLR is officially supported by Postgres?

Regards,
Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 8:16 PM
To: Joel Mariadasan (jomariad) <jomariad@cisco.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ASLR support for Postgres12

"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
sharedmemory 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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