Re: 9.4 release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 9.4 release notes
Date
Msg-id 20140617152921.GC3666@momjian.us
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In response to Re: 9.4 release notes  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Jun  3, 2014 at 01:21:51AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Feedback expected and welcomed.
>
> One item currently reads "Improve valgrind error reporting".  I
> suggest this be changed to "Add support for Valgrind memcheck memory
> error detector". It was possible to use the tool before, but the lack
> of cooperation from Postgres made this far less useful.

I have applied the attached patch to improve this.  I didn't use "memory
error" because it is not checking for errors in the memory, but rather
invalid memory usage.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
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