When the following code introduces a valgrind warning… you are in a world of pain and loss:

=== modified file 'drizzled/field/blob.h'
--- drizzled/field/blob.h	2009-12-21 08:16:13 +0000
+++ drizzled/field/blob.h	2010-01-18 01:36:48 +0000
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
  */
 class Field_blob :public Field_str {
 protected:
+  uint32_t assassass;
   uint32_t packlength;
   String value;				// For temporaries
 public: