Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Worth using personality(ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) for EXEC_BACKEND on linux?
Date: 2023-02-09 22:56:33
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 08:15:21AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> For the record, according to [1] it's not necessary to use
> --reset-author when back-patching. (Maybe a little confusingly,
> because it's not quite clear whether our policies consider the author
> field to be meaningful or not.)
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1347459696.16215.11.camel%40vanquo.pezone.net

Oops, sorry about that. Using --reset-author is a habit when it comes
to backpatch. It looks like my mistake when back-patching something
only to stable branches.
--
Michael

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