On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 15:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Maybe we're talking past each other. What I thought you meant was
> adding this #define unconditionally, without any awareness of what it
> might do on particular platforms. If you are thinking of adding it
> only on platforms where it is considered standard, I can live with
> that.
I had suggested to put it into src/include/port/linux.h
>
> Another point to consider here is that (at least on Red Hat) I believe
> this enables address-space randomization; which is something I very
> much do not want to happen in debug builds.
I doubt that a preprocessor symbol has anything to do with address-space
randomization. You are probably thinking of some other option that
comes in with the hardening/security flags.