[postgis-devel] running PostGIS on valgrind-enabled build /identifying memory issues

[Tomas Vondra]

On 02/10/2018 04:33 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> Tomas, since which versino does PostgreSQL have such built-in
> valgrind support ? Would you feel like trying to add such build
> option in the Dockerfile used by Drone to test PostGIS ?
> https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis-docker/src/branch/master/build-test
> 

The instrumentation is there since PostgreSQL 9.4. Adding it to a docker
image might be useful, but it makes the testing much longer (not only it
works better with -O0, valgrind pretty much emulates a lot of stuff). So
maybe as an option that is disabled by default.

regards

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