Re: memory-related bugs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: memory-related bugs
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In response to memory-related bugs  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> A suitably-instrumented run of "make installcheck-world" under valgrind turned
> up a handful of memory-related bugs:


Nice work. How did you instrument things so valgrind knew about palloc
et al? I remember trying this in the past and running into problems. I
think the biggest one was that we write out structs to disk including
padding so trigger lots of reads of uninitialized data warnings.


-- 
greg


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