Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 200603061454.k26Es2J01645@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of PostgreSQL  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
Responses Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of PostgreSQL
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Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Ben Chelf wrote:
> > Hello PostgreSQL Developers,
> > 
> >   I'm the CTO of Coverity, Inc., a company that does static source code 
> > analysis to look for defects in code. You may have heard of us or of our 
> > technology from its days at Stanford (the "Stanford Checker"). The 
> > reason I'm writing is because we have set up a framework internally to 
> > continually scan open source projects and provide the results of our 
> > analysis back to the developers of those projects. PostgreSQL is one of 
> > the 32 projects currently scanned at:
> > 
> > http://scan.coverity.com
> 
> Hm, interestingly and in contrast to some announcements, MySQL is not 
> included in this list. Did it blast the defects column ? :-)

I thought we ran the Converity analysis a year ago and cleaned up the
warnings, so I am surprised at our high number, but I assume they are
mostly noise.

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