Re: capturing regression test core dump

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: capturing regression test core dump
Date: 2011-07-05 16:03:40
Message-ID: 1309881722-sup-6332@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar jul 05 11:49:48 -0400 2011:
> Is there any way to get the regression tests to write a core dump file
> somewhere that I can get at it? I tried "ulimit -c unlimited" but
> can't find any core file lying around after I reproduce the crash.

Are you using a temp install? If so, the core files are going to end up
there, and thus go away when that's deleted. You could change the
core_pattern if you're on Linux (see core(5)) but it's probably easier
to use "make installcheck" instead.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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