Re: btree_gist macaddr valgrind woes

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: btree_gist macaddr valgrind woes
Date: 2014-05-16 14:08:40
Message-ID: 53761BE8.6070209@vmware.com
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On 05/16/2014 01:28 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After Heikki has fixed the bit btree_gist bugs my valgrind run shows a
> bug in macaddr.
>
> Presumably it's because the type is a fixed width type with a length of
> 6. I guess it's allocating stuff sizeof(macaddr) but then passes the
> result around as a Datum which doesn't work well.

The complaints seem to be coming from all the varlen data types, too,
not just macaddr:

> ...
> ==14219== by 0x6B74BF1: gbt_macad_compress (btree_macaddr.c:113)
> ...
> ==14250== by 0x6B75C45: gbt_text_picksplit (btree_text.c:215)
> ...
> ==14280== by 0x6B76063: gbt_bytea_picksplit (btree_bytea.c:143)
> ...
> ==14292== by 0x6B76591: gbt_bit_union (btree_bit.c:173)
> ...

I'm not seeing those valgrind warnings when I run it. Can you give more
details on how to reproduce?

- Heikki

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