Re: [Postgres-xc-developers] [HACKERS] Building on S390

[Peter E. <pe...@gm...>]

On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 23:32 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
>         According to the Debian build logs, postgres-xc compiles the
>         entire
>         backend with -fPIC.  Not sure what sense that makes.
> 
> 
> Debian policy is to always use -fPIC

My point is, they compile the *backend* as position-independent code.
The backend is not a shared library.  Maybe it is in Postgres-XC?  But
at least this makes their build process significantly different, so it's
doubtful that this is a PG-proper issue.