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commit    d472bf14f2595926a96bf668936b2cc920b9a7d3
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-18.sgml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml
index 9537f1932ec..222d884831b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-18.sgml
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ 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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