[HACKERS] Using RTLD_DEEPBIND to handle symbol conflicts in loaded libraries

I had to make oracle_fdw work with PostgreSQL compiled using --with-ldap. The issue there is that Oracle's client library has the delightful property of linking against a ldap library they bundle that has symbol conflicts with OpenLDAP. At PostgreSQL startup libldap is loaded, so when libclntsh.so

Re: [HACKERS] Using RTLD_DEEPBIND to handle symbol conflicts in loaded libraries

Ants Aasma wrote: I had to make oracle_fdw work with PostgreSQL compiled using --with-ldap. The issue there is that Oracle's client library has the delightful property of linking against a ldap library they bundle that has symbol conflicts with OpenLDAP. At PostgreSQL startup libldap is