Re: Building Extension on Linux fails with relocation error

"Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pgsql@hjp.at> writes:
> On 2023-12-22 10:31:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Binaek Sarkar <binaek@turbot.com> writes:
>>> Interestingly, the *build completes successfully when the .a file is
>>> smaller* (around 100 MB).

>> Pure luck I suspect.

> I seem to remember a 256MB limit for position independent code on x86.
> The current man-page for GCC doesn't mention such a limit, though, so I
> may be mistaken.

At least on x86, there is/was a shlib size boundary beyond which you
needed to generate different instructions with wider offset fields
in order to have position-independent code.  Thus the difference
between -fpic and -fPIC.  It's at least possible that the OP's Go
toolchain automatically uses -fpic, but I'm suspicious of that theory.
Usually you don't use either switch when building .a libraries.

            regards, tom lane