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Re: Protecting allocator headers with Valgrind

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

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From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2023-04-15T15:25:58Z
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On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 01:28:08AM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> Any objections?

Not objecting.  I think the original Valgrind integration refrained from this
because it would have added enough Valgrind client requests to greatly slow
Valgrind runs.  Valgrind reduced the cost of client requests in later years,
so this new conclusion is reasonable.

Commits

  1. Adjust Valgrind macro usage to protect chunk headers