Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?
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Msg-id CA+hUKGLqvSkZUcELZZJ5fGUKcxiTWLYRwQ59phH_6ctfgJ7=pQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?
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On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 5:12 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> At the end, I have just done this stuff down to ~12, 11 does not seem
> worth the trouble as the next stable version to go out of support.
> I'll reduce gokiburi's script a bit, as a result, until the oldest
> version support is v12.

For the record, according to [1] it's not necessary to use
--reset-author when back-patching.  (Maybe a little confusingly,
because it's not quite clear whether our policies consider the author
field to be meaningful or not.)

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1347459696.16215.11.camel%40vanquo.pezone.net



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