From: | Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)tigerdata(dot)com> |
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To: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Silence Valgrind about SelectConfigFiles() |
Date: | 2025-08-13 23:35:52 |
Message-ID: | CAJ7c6TOBsWa3wD2gfJTWWmMSfbprC6kP8wUQvhppoEsXLDer7A@mail.gmail.com |
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Hi Tom,
> You didn't say what the test condition was, but from the patch
> I suppose it's a case where SelectConfigFiles is erroring out?
Steps to reproduce:
1. Uncomment USE_VALGRIND in src/include/pg_config_manual.h, then
rebuild and setup Postgres as usual
2. In the first terminal:
```
$ valgrind \
--leak-check=full \
--track-origins=yes \
--gen-suppressions=all \
--read-var-info=yes \
--log-file=/tmp/valgrind/%p.log \
--suppressions=src/tools/valgrind.supp \
--time-stamp=yes \
--trace-children=yes \
postgres -D /home/eax/pginstall/data \
2>&1 | tee /tmp/valgrind/postmaster.log
```
3. In the second terminal:
```
meson test -C build \
--setup running \
--suite regress-running \
--timeout-multiplier 0
pg_ctl -w -D /home/eax/pginstall/data stop
grep -r 'ERROR SUMMARY' /tmp/valgrind/ | grep -v 'SUMMARY: 0 errors'
```
> Kind of hard to get excited about preventing a leak in that path,
> since we're going to exit immediately.
It's not exciting at all but given the fact that this is the only
"definitely lost" error I got it's worth fixing IMO ("broken windows"
and all that). I should have also pointed out that SelectConfigFiles()
sometimes calls free(configdir) and sometimes doesn't, which is
inconsistent.
Sorry for little details in the first email - it's 2:30 AM in my time zone :)
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