On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 01:21:51AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@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. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. +
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml new file mode 100644 index d9f9828..5868529 *** a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml --- b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml *************** *** 2229,2235 **** <listitem> <para> ! Improve <application>Valgrind</> error reporting (Noah Misch) </para> </listitem> --- 2229,2236 ---- <listitem> <para> ! Improve <application>Valgrind</> detection of invalid memory usage ! (Noah Misch) </para> </listitem>
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