On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:40 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > You can work around this by doing (as root) > echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space > before starting the postmaster. You'll probably want to set it back to > 1 when done experimenting with EXEC_BACKEND, since address randomization > is a useful security hack.
I haven't fiddled with this myself, but according to Arjan van de Ven's post to fedora-devel on July 30th 2005, > setarch has an -R option to start the binary without randomisation. ...so that you can turn it off per-execution rather than system-wide. I'm not sure if children inherit the setting. Mitch ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
