Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> On 05/16/2014 06:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Dunno what's the problem for the varlena types, but that's a completely
>> separate code path.
> It seems to be a similar issue to what I fixed in the bit type earlier.
> When the lower+upper keys are stored as one varlen Datum, the padding
> bytes between them are not zeroed. With these datatypes (i.e. not
> varbit) it doesn't lead to any real errors, however, because the padding
> bytes are never read. Valgrind is just complaining that we're storing
> uninitialized data on disk, even though it's never looked at.
Yeah, I came to the same conclusions.
regards, tom lane