On 5 Dec 2014, at 22:41, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> wrote: > > > Perhaps we should also officially recommend production servers be setup to > create core files. AFAIK the only downside is the time it would take to write > a core that's huge because of shared buffers, but perhaps there's some way to > avoid writing those? (That means the core won't help if the bug is due to > something in a buffer, but that seems unlikely enough that the tradeoff is > worth it...)
Good idea. It seems the madvise() system call (with MADV_DONTDUMP) is exactly what's needed to avoid dumping shared buffers. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
