Re: new heapcheck contrib module

> On Oct 26, 2020, at 9:12 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:45 PM Mark Dilger
>> <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Done that way in the attached, which also include Robert's changes from v19 he posted earlier today.
>
>> Committed. Let's see what the buildfarm thinks.
>
> Another thing that the buildfarm is pointing out is
>
> [WARN] FOUserAgent - The contents of fo:block line 2 exceed the available area in the inline-progression direction by more than 50 points. (See position 148863:380)
>
> This is coming from the sample output for verify_heapam(), which is too
> wide to fit in even a normal-size browser window, let alone A4 PDF.
>
> While we could perhaps hack it up to allow more line breaks, or see
> if \x formatting helps, my own suggestion would be to just nuke the
> sample output altogether.

Ok.

> It doesn't look like it is any sort of
> representative real output,

It is not. It came from artificially created corruption in the regression tests. I may even have manually edited that, though I don't recall.

> and it is not useful enough to be worth
> spending time to patch up.

Ok.

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