Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Niyas Sait <niyas(dot)sait(at)linaro(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support
Date: 2022-03-24 22:38:44
Message-ID: CA+hUKGKGZ2crHGDi=zXtjYy9GptUZ99Jtu=w-P_qeaeaP8k7mg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 2:15 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> I think we've generally seen the ASLR issue become less prominent on
> windows. Whether that's because of the silent retries we added, or because
> just about everyone moved to 64bit windows / PG, I don't know. I'd guess both,
> with 64bit being the larger influence.
>
> Wonder if it's worth adding some debug logging to the retry code and stop
> disabling ASLR on 64bit windows... It's imo pretty crazy that we loop up to
> 100 times in internal_forkexec() around CreateProcess() &&
> pgwin32_ReserveSharedMemoryRegion() without, as far as I can see, a single
> debug message.

Yeah. I think we should commit this patch, but decree that
Windows/aarch64 support is experimental only for now. That allows a
build farm animal to be set up. Then we add a bit of extra logging
and see how it does running our test suite over time and learn more.

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