Re: Non-reproducible valgrind failure on HEAD

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Non-reproducible valgrind failure on HEAD
Date: 2021-05-09 22:17:36
Message-ID: 542798.1620598656@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2021-05-09 17:12:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> (I wonder if we shouldn't adjust the comments in pg_config_manual.h,
>> though, as they certainly leave the impression that USE_VALGRIND
>> isn't essential.)

> That'd make sense to me. If we found a better way to deal with the
> sinval thing it'd be good too - but I am not seeing anything convincing,
> and I looked a couple times over the years...

Yeah, it's actually somewhat amazing that we get useful results at all
around shared-memory accesses.

Proposed comment patch attached.

regards, tom lane

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