Re: 800RC1 valgrind-detected bug ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 800RC1 valgrind-detected bug ?
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Msg-id 14037.1103033501@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to 800RC1 valgrind-detected bug ?  (strk <strk@keybit.net>)
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strk <strk@keybit.net> writes:
> ==15489== Syscall param write(buf) contains uninitialised or unaddressable byte(s)

Valgrind is fairly useless for debugging postgres, because it doesn't
know the difference between alignment-pad bytes in a struct and real
data.  What you've got here is a gripe arising from writing out a
struct containing padding.
        regards, tom lane


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