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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?
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In response to Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
Responses Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 1:30 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> How common is to get a failure?  I know I've run tests under
> EXEC_BACKEND and not seen any failures.  Not many runs though.

On macOS, failures are extremely common. Sometimes I have to run
simple tests many times to get even one success. The proposal on the
table won't help with that problem since it's Linux-specific, but if
there's any way to do something similar on macOS it would be a _huge_
help.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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