| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart) |
| Cc: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Indixing problems... |
| Date: | 1998-09-09 18:08:55 |
| Message-ID: | 199809091808.OAA11118@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Has anyone tried building the backend with a debugging malloc library?
>
> This has been done in the past by a couple of people who had access to
> Purify. I recall that it helped find several problems, but also
> generated quite a few spurious messages because of the way we
> allocate/deallocate blocks of memory during queries.
>
> Our current best debugging technique is for a bunch of us to get all in
> a froth about a problem until Vadim gets fed up with our flailing around
> and fixes it himself ;-)
Excellent description.
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