Re: [bug fix] postgres.exe fails to start on Windows Server 2012 due to ASLR

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, MauMau <maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [bug fix] postgres.exe fails to start on Windows Server 2012 due to ASLR
Date: 2014-02-18 14:28:50
Message-ID: 23767.1392733730@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> I've applied this and backpatched to 9.3 and 9.2, which is as far back as
> it goes cleanly.

> In 9.1 the build system looked significantly different, which makes it
> strange since the original report in this thread was about 9.1 but the
> patch supplied clearly wasn't for that.

> Does somebody want to look at backpatching this to 9.1 and earlier, or
> should we just say that it's not fully supported on those Windows versions
> unless you apply the registry workaround?

The question I think needs to be asked is not that, but "what about the
mingw and cygwin builds?".

regards, tom lane

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