Re: RTLD_LAZY considered harmful (Re: pltlc and pltlcu problems)

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > Interesting LAZY has better efficiency.  Seems we should just keep LAZY
> > as our default for future releases and tell people if they link to bad
> > object files, they should expect trouble.
> 
> In practice, we load object files only if we call the function, so symbol
> resolution happens either way briefly after loading.  RTLD_NOW includes
> some overhead because it checks symbols that we might not end up needing,
> but for the typical PostgreSQL extension module, that should really not
> matter.

OK, I was just throwing out the point in case it was significant.

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