Hi, On 2020-02-10 17:31:47 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Yeah. Maybe we should file bug reports against downstream packages to > include a corefilter tweak.
Hm, I'm not sure that's a reasonable way to scale things. Nor am I really sure that's the right granularity. > My development helper script uses this > > runpg_corefilter() { > pid=$(head -1 $PGDATADIR/postmaster.pid) > if [ ! -z "$pid" ]; then > echo 0x01 > /proc/$pid/coredump_filter > fi > } > > I don't know how easy is it to teach systemd to do this on its service > files. Well, you could just make it part of the command that starts the server. Not aware of anything else. > FWIW I've heard that some people like to have shmem in core files to > improve debuggability, but it's *very* infrequent. Oh, I pretty regularly want that. If you're debugging anthying that includes locks, page accesses, etc, it's pretty hard to succeed without? > But maybe we should have a way to disable the corefiltering. There should, imo. That's why I was wondering about making this a GUC (presumably suset). Greetings, Andres Freund