Re: ASLR support for Postgres12

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joel Mariadasan (jomariad)" <jomariad(at)cisco(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ASLR support for Postgres12
Date: 2020-03-23 14:45:43
Message-ID: 29964.1584974743@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joel Mariadasan (jomariad)" <jomariad(at)cisco(dot)com> writes:
> We would like to know if there is a roadmap to enable ASLR support for postgre.

Not on Windows --- since that OS doesn't support fork(), it's too
difficult to get different child processes to map shared memory
at the same address if ASLR is active.

If that feature is important to you, use a different operating
system.

regards, tom lane

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