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Doc: fix release-note typo.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 15 May 2026 22:32:33 +0000 (18:32 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 15 May 2026 22:32:33 +0000 (18:32 -0400)
This mention of memcpy() should of course have said memcmp().

Reported-by: chris@chrullrich.net
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/177883653690.764749.14038057906859461991@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14

doc/src/sgml/release-16.sgml

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@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ Branch: REL_14_STABLE [b282280e9] 2026-05-11 05:13:51 -0700
 
      <para>
       Use <function>timingsafe_bcmp()</function> instead
-      of <function>memcpy()</function> or <function>strcmp()</function>
+      of <function>memcmp()</function> or <function>strcmp()</function>
       when checking passwords, hashes, etc.  It is not known whether the
       data dependency of those functions is usefully exploitable in any of
       these places, but in the interests of safety, replace them.