Re: memory-related bugs

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: memory-related bugs
Date: 2011-03-12 16:08:23
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> A suitably-instrumented run of "make installcheck-world" under valgrind turned
> up a handful of memory-related bugs:

Nice work. How did you instrument things so valgrind knew about palloc
et al? I remember trying this in the past and running into problems. I
think the biggest one was that we write out structs to disk including
padding so trigger lots of reads of uninitialized data warnings.

--
greg

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