On 11/24/2010 05:18 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
Or you set the handler always, and have the handler only actually create the dump if the directory exists. That way you can add the directory and still get a dump from both existing backends and the postmaster itself without a restart.
That's way smarter. No extra filesystem access during startup, even if it is cheap.
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