Re: bug: core dump in pl/perl (cvs head).

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: bug: core dump in pl/perl (cvs head).
Date: 2005-07-05 21:12:28
Message-ID: 4235.1120597948@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:49:54PM +0200, Hans-Jrgen Schnig wrote:
>> I am running FC4 on x86. There is no core dump.

> Just to be sure: where are you looking? I don't know if it's
> configurable on your platform, but I usually find core dumps under
> $PGDATA/base/<databaseoid>/.

CVS tip of the last forty-eight hours or so would dump into $PGDATA
instead. It's a good bet though that "ulimit -c" is set to 0 (no dumps)
by default on that platform. I tend to put
ulimit -c unlimited
into the postmaster startup script on Linux machines, so that I can get
core dumps.

regards, tom lane

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