On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:56:39PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> > Tom Lane once mentioned that "Valgrind is fairly useless for debugging
> > postgres," but has anybody tried it for this problem?
>
> I've got valgrind working, but not sure exactly how to use it to debug
> this problem. What's the procedure?
I haven't used valgrind much, but I was thinking of initdb'ing a
test cluster, loading the PL/Perl functions into it, and running
valgrind on a single-user-mode postgres process in which you issue
a query that causes the problem. I'm wondering if valgrind's memory
checks will show the code accessing memory that hasn't been initialized.
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Michael Fuhr