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Error in 18.4 release notes

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Date: 2026-05-15T09:15:36Z
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18-4.html
Description:

The 18.4 release notes say this: "Use timing-safe string comparisons in
authentication code (Michael Paquier) Use timingsafe_bcmp() instead of
memcpy() or strcmp() when checking passwords, ..."

I think that should be memcmp() instead of memcpy().

Commits

  1. Doc: fix release-note typo.