Thanks Tom for the quick Update.
Can you please point me to a link or give the list of OSes where ASLR is
officially supported by Postgres?
Regards,
Joel
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 8:16 PM
To: Joel Mariadasan (jomariad) <jomar...@cisco.com>
Cc: pgsql-hack...@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ASLR support for Postgres12
"Joel Mariadasan (jomariad)" <jomar...@cisco.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
