From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Koczan <pjkoczan@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Bus error in postgres 8.3
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:01:04 -0400
Message-ID: <25410.1209448864@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"Peter Koczan" <pjkoczan@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm going to try to force a crash on my test server to see if I can
> find out anything more. Does anyone know how to get useful debugging
> info at the time of the crash? I don't think I have things set to dump
> core anywhere, but that and/or stack traces would be nice (especially
> for child processes).
Make sure the postmaster is started under ulimit -c unlimited.
On a depressingly large fraction of modern platforms, daemons are
started with ulimit -c 0 by default :-(. Try putting "ulimit -c unlimited"
into your PG init script and restarting.
regards, tom lane
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