Re: Recent SIGSEGV failures in buildfarm HEAD

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>
>>
>> I wonder whether there's any way to get the buildfarm script to report a
>> stack trace automatically if it finds a core file left behind in the
>> $PGDATA directory after running the tests. Would something like this
>> be adequately portable?
>>
>> if [ -f $PGDATA/core* ]
>> then
>> echo bt | gdb $installdir/bin/postgres $PGDATA/core*
>> fi
>>
>
> gdb has a "batch mode" which can be useful:
>
> if [ -f $PGDATA/core* ]
> then
> gdb -ex "bt" --batch $installdir/bin/postgres $PGDATA/core*
> fi
>
>

here's a quick untested patch for buildfarm that Stefan might like to try.

cheers

andrew