From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 22:32:33 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Doc: fix release-note typo.
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Doc: fix release-note typo.

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
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
index 3e8b4dc39c4..4975d446337 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ 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.