Re: [HACKERS] Indixing problems...

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Indixing problems...
Date: 1998-09-09 15:10:28
Message-ID: 35F69A64.D8913DA7@alumni.caltech.edu
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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 ;-)

Thanks again Vadim!

- Tom

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