gokiburi versus the back branches

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: gokiburi versus the back branches
Date: 2023-02-06 23:27:50
Message-ID: 2930303.1675726070@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I notice that Michael's new BF animal gokiburi is failing in
all the pre-v15 branches, though it's fine in v15 and HEAD.
It's evidently dying from ASLR effects because it's trying
to build with EXEC_BACKEND on Linux: there's lots of

2023-02-06 06:07:02.131 GMT [1503972] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=813803, addr=0xffff8c3a5000): Invalid argument
2023-02-06 06:07:02.131 GMT [1503971] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=813803, addr=0xffff8c3a5000): Invalid argument
2023-02-06 06:07:02.132 GMT [1503976] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=813803, addr=0xffff8c3a5000): Invalid argument

in its logs.

The reason it's okay in v15 and up is presumably this:

Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Branch: master Release: REL_15_BR [f3e78069d] 2022-01-11 00:04:33 +1300

Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on Linux and FreeBSD.

Try to disable ASLR when building in EXEC_BACKEND mode, to avoid random
memory mapping failures while testing. For developer use only, no
effect on regular builds.

Is it time to back-patch that commit? The alternative would be
to run the animal with an ASLR-disabling environment variable.
On the whole I think testing that f3e78069d works is more
useful than working around lack of it.

regards, tom lane

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