On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 11:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > My point is, they compile the *backend* as position-independent
> code.
> > The backend is not a shared library. Maybe it is in Postgres-XC?
> But
> > at least this makes their build process significantly different, so
> it's
> > doubtful that this is a PG-proper issue.
>
> Note that that's not an unreasonable decision in itself, if it's done
> pursuant to some distro policy that daemons should run with ASLR
> enabled.
Right. False alarm.