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From Magnus Hagander
Subject pgsql: Disable RandomizedBaseAddress on MSVC builds
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Msg-id E1WFl9C-0007th-Fq@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Disable RandomizedBaseAddress on MSVC builds

The ASLR in Windows 8/Windows 2012 can break PostgreSQL's shared memory. It
doesn't fail every time (which is explained by the Random part in ASLR), but
can fail with errors abut failing to reserve shared memory region.

MauMau, reviewed by Craig Ringer

Branch
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REL9_2_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/062deb31387b0e3190f8084c2de2194f40ee6a96

Modified Files
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src/tools/msvc/MSBuildProject.pm |    1 +
src/tools/msvc/VCBuildProject.pm |    1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

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