Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)

On 4/10/2010 8:27 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 04.10.2010 15:21, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> Thinking about it, a possibly better alternative is to ship it as a
>> library as is done with the pl/pgsql debugger, and use (I think)
>> shared_preload_libraries to load it when desired. That way there's zero
>> cost if disabled, though a somewhat higher cost if enabled.
>>
>> Hmm. That'll let me put a test version together that'll work with 9.0 as
>> well, so that seems like a no-brainer really, it's just a better way to
>> do it. Time for a Pg-on-windows build, yay.
>
> If it's not a lot of code, it's better to have it built-in always.
> Loading extra libraries in debug-mode could lead to heisenbugs.

Good point. The built-in approach would also permit it to be turned on
in an already-running server, which would be nice as for those fun
only-shows-up-in-production bugs where you may not want to restart Pg.

I'll chuck together a library version first, though, so it can be tested
easily on existing installs of Pg 9.0. Compiling Pg on Windows isn't as
quick and easy as on *nix so that should help for testing/consideration.
If people are happy with the results I'll put together a patch to
integrate it directly instead of using a library.

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Craig Ringer

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