Re: Coverity Open Source Defect Scan of PostgreSQL

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> 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 ? :-)
>
> I thought we ran the Converity analysis a year ago and cleaned up the
> warnings, so I am surprised at our high number, but I assume they are
> mostly noise.

Got an account and will take a look at the details this evening ... :)

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