Re: Regression tests fail with musl libc because libpq.so can't be loaded

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:46 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
> What determines which variables require this treatment?

That came from me peeking at their code:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKGKNK5V8XwwJJZm36s3EUy8V51xu4XiE8%3D26n%3DWq3OGd4A%40mail.gmail.com

I had originally proposed to avoid anything beginning "LD_" but Tom
suggested being more specific.  I doubt LD_PRELOAD can really hurt you
though (the linker probably only needs the value at the start by
definition, not at later dlopen() time (?)).  I dunno.  If you're
asking if there is any standard or whatever supplying these names, the
System V or at least ELF standards talk about LD_LIBRARY_PATH (though
those standards don't know/care what happens after userspace takes
over control of the environment concept, they just talk about how the
world is created when you exec a process, so they AFAICS they don't
address this clobbering stuff, and AFAIK other LD_XXX stuff is
probably implementation specific).