Re: RTLD_LAZY considered harmful (Re: pltlc and pltlcu problems)

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Unless I hear a credible counter-argument, I am going to change
>> RTLD_LAZY to RTLD_NOW in src/backend/port/dynloader/linux.h. I have
>> tested that and it produces a clean error with no backend crash.

> RTLD_LAZY allows you to load shared library modules that contain circular
> references.

Does that not work with RTLD_NOW? I should think it would. In any
case, I'm doubtful that we care.

> I really don't think this is a good change to make now, as we don't know
> how well all of this is supported, and the failure scenario is annoying
> but not really that harmful.

A database restart is always very bad news in my mind. You might be
right that it's too risky to make such a change now for 7.2, but I still
absolutely want to do it for 7.3.

regards, tom lane