Re: [HACKERS] Indixing problems... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Indixing problems...
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Msg-id 199809091808.OAA11118@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Indixing problems...  ("Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@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 ;-)

Excellent description.

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