Andreas Pflug wrote: > Ben Chelf wrote: > >Hello PostgreSQL Developers, > > > > I'm the CTO of Coverity, Inc., a company that does static source code > >analysis to look for defects in code. You may have heard of us or of our > >technology from its days at Stanford (the "Stanford Checker"). The > >reason I'm writing is because we have set up a framework internally to > >continually scan open source projects and provide the results of our > >analysis back to the developers of those projects. PostgreSQL is one of > >the 32 projects currently scanned at: > > > >http://scan.coverity.com > > Hm, interestingly and in contrast to some announcements, MySQL is not > included in this list. Did it blast the defects column ? :-)
AFAIR they got a private scan done and they fixed the reported defects. After that they issued a press release telling how little defects they got, or something ... OTOH neither JBoss, BerkeleyDB, Qt are listed. Is there a pattern here? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq