Re: Allowing to run a buildfarm animal under valgrind

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Allowing to run a buildfarm animal under valgrind
Date: 2016-03-08 21:26:29
Message-ID: 20160308212629.lorfxiip7tepp6nh@alap3.anarazel.de
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2016-03-08 18:24:23 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
>
> > I do wonder if adding a PGCTLPOSTGRESWRAPPER or something to pg_ctl
> > would be ok. That'd just supplant calling the postgres binary, making
> > all this easier.
>
> This seems a reasonably principled way to go about this. Eventually we
> might plug other things in it ...

It's not that easy to write such a wrapper though - you *have* to exec
the final binary, because -w assumes that the child pid is going to
appear in postmaster.pid...

To be actually useful we kinda would have to backpatch this to 9.4
(where the valgrind hardening stuff started)...

Andres

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2016-03-08 21:27:44 Re: More stable query plans via more predictable column statistics
Previous Message David Rowley 2016-03-08 21:26:18 Re: Parallel Aggregate