Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 04/16/13 at 05:59pm, Tom Lane wrote: >> Pursuant to the recent discussion about using _hardened_build in more >> packages, I tried turning it on in postgresql. I was unpleasantly >> surprised to find that that causes the package's regression tests to >> fail, at least when running a 32-bit build in mock under a 64-bit >> kernel. The cause appears to be that getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK) reports >> an inflated value for the process's available stack space. > I am wondering why Ubuntu didn't hit this bug earlier since they have > been shipping PIE enabled postgresql for a long time now. I'd bet a nickel they don't bother to run the regression tests during build. It's something that might not get noticed quickly in the field, particularly if most users are on the 64-bit version. > Does this problem occurs only under Linux 3.9 kernel (and not under > Linux <= 3.8 kernel versions) ? Uh, no. I first saw it on my overdue-for-upgrade F16 machine, running kernel-3.6.11-4.fc16.x86_64. I thought maybe it was a old bug, but it's still there in F19. regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
