Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> The best I have been able to tell is that none of our .so's are anywhere > >> near large enough to require -fPIC. > > > One question would be what happens when it fails? Does it fail visibly > > so we would hear about it? If so, we can take the risk. > > Yes, you'd get a link failure. On the platforms I've seen it on (HPUX > at least, on an old project with .so's in the dozens-of-megabytes range) > the error message is pretty specific that you should have used -fPIC.
Great. In general, I am not sure we are always explicit that taking risks is contingent on how the user will see a possible failure. For example, if -fpic generated SELECT query failures randomly, that would be a much less attractive risk than a link failure. Risk is a function of both the probability, and the _visibility_ of the failure. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
