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commit    4c35d93e49ef9eab825996bacc3aa230b4fe11f4
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Fri May 15 22:32:33 2026 +0000
First released in: 14.24, 15.19, 16.15, 17.11, 18.6

    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


 doc/src/sgml/release-14.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-14.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-14.sgml
index b714f75c900..13393f36e2e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-14.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-14.sgml
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ 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.


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