Re: 9.4 release notes

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.4 release notes
Date: 2014-06-17 15:29:21
Message-ID: 20140617152921.GC3666@momjian.us
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 01:21:51AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)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.

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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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