On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:40 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> You can work around this by doing (as root)
> echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
> before starting the postmaster. You'll probably want to set it back to
> 1 when done experimenting with EXEC_BACKEND, since address randomization
> is a useful security hack.
I haven't fiddled with this myself, but according to Arjan van de Ven's
post to fedora-devel on July 30th 2005,
> setarch has an -R option to start the binary without randomisation.
...so that you can turn it off per-execution rather than system-wide.
I'm not sure if children inherit the setting.
Mitch