Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: SQL/MED catalog manipulation facilities This doesn't do any - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: SQL/MED catalog manipulation facilities This doesn't do any
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Msg-id 20081220134102.GA4845@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: SQL/MED catalog manipulation facilities This doesn't do any  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> petere@postgresql.org (Peter Eisentraut) writes:
> > Log Message:
> > -----------
> > SQL/MED catalog manipulation facilities
> 
> The buildfarm says this patch has got serious portability issues.

FWIW I recently learned that you can set MALLOC_PERTURB_ to a nonzero
value to cause glibc's malloc() to fill memory with the byte value
therein, and clear it with the bitwise inverse on free.  This could be
helpful to find cases of uninitialized memory usage.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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