Thread: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Coverity Inspected, 20 bugs detected!
From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Joshua D. Drake
Sent: Sat 7/23/2005 9:50 PM
To: Marc G. Fournier
Cc: Josh Berkus; pgsql-www@postgresql.org; pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [pgsql-www] Coverity Inspected, 20 bugs detected!
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> IMHO ... most definitely to both ...
Yes to both.
>
>
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Sorry to dual-list this, but there's dual aspects to it.
>>
>> EnterpriseDB, Neil Conway and (earlier) Sean Chittenden worked with
>> Coverity to do static code analysis of PostgreSQL. We came up very
>> clean
>> (20 bugs in our 3/4 million lines of code) but part of that was due to
>> previous work. As such, we're now entitled to put a "Coverity
>> Inspected"
>> web sticker up on our site somewhere.
>>
>> So, two questions:
>>
>> 1) Do we want to put up a Coverity Inspected button? On the plus side,
>> Oracle, MySQL and BerkeleyDB (as well as FreeBSD) have all gone through
>> the Coverity checker, so it says good things about our competitiveness to
>> other database products. On the negative side, do we really care?
>>
>> 2) If we want to put up the button, *where*? We don't really have a
>> page
>> on the web site for "certifications and awards", but maybe we ought to?
>>
>> --
>> --Josh
>>
>> Josh Berkus
>> Aglio Database Solutions
>> San Francisco
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On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 19:33, Denis Lussier wrote: > I also vote yes to both. Can someone put together a list of other > recent awards PG has won over the last couple of years? > Something like http://www.postgresql.org/about/awards ? Do you have a button for the coverity inspected certification? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL