Re: more backtraces

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: more backtraces
Date: 2019-12-13 12:26:43
Message-ID: b43b4c1e-1a52-008f-a188-bd1fbce5aaf8@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-12-04 22:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>> It'd be bad if the addition of backtraces for SEGV/BUS suddenly made it
>> harder to attach a debugger and getting useful results.
>
> Yeah. TBH, I'm not sure I want this, at least not in debug builds.

I understand that the SEGV/BUS thing can be a bit scary. We can skip it.

Are people interested in backtraces on abort()? That was asked for in
an earlier thread.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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