Re: [PATCH] Add a few suppression rules for Valgrind

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> I decided to run the code from master branch under Valgrind and
>> discovered that it reports some errors.

> On my systems I just include a global valgrind suppression file which
> includes libc specific things and then the postgres valgrind.supp. I'm
> very hesitant to add suppressions to the codebase for this, seems too
> likely to actually hide bugs.

Yeah, I think it's a much better idea to add a local suppression file
for problems in your local libc or other libraries. That's what I do.
Looking at mine, it also suppresses some weirdnesses in RHEL6's version
of Perl, which would surely be inappropriate on other platforms.

regards, tom lane