John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> writes:
> We still shouldn't be dumping core files as part of a pg_basebackup...
It'd be reasonable to skip 'em if we can identify 'em reliably. I'm
not sure how reliably we can do that though.
> but then, why was the core file even IN the $PGDATA directory, shouldn't
> it have been in some other dir, like the postgres daemon user's $HOME ?
No, that's standard behavior. (I know of no Unix-oid system that dumps
cores into your $HOME by default; it's normally either $PWD or some
reserved directory like /cores.)
regards, tom lane