Joe, Thanks,
This works and I don't have to install anything! Dave Cramer On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 at 16:16, Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> wrote: > On 4/29/21 6:56 AM, Dave Cramer wrote: > > For testing unusual situations I'd like to be able to cause a backend to > > terminate due to something like a segfault. Do we currently have this in > > testing ? > > If you can run SQL as a superuser from that backend, try: > > COPY (SELECT pg_backend_pid()) > TO PROGRAM 'xargs kill -SIGSEGV'; > > HTH, > > Joe > > -- > Crunchy Data - http://crunchydata.com > PostgreSQL Support for Secure Enterprises > Consulting, Training, & Open Source Development >