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Re: Garbage pad bytes within datums are bad news - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Teodor Sigaev
Subject Re: Garbage pad bytes within datums are bad news
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In response to Garbage pad bytes within datums are bad news  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Garbage pad bytes within datums are bad news  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> The alternative seems to be to forbid uninitialized pad bytes within
> Datums.  That's not very pleasant to contemplate either, since it'll
> forever be vulnerable to sins of omission.

Hmm, we can add to palloc random filling of allocated memory with 
--enable-cassert.  It'll allow to catch such bugs in most cases.

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Teodor Sigaev                                   E-mail: teodor@sigaev.ru
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