--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:32:20PM -0700, David Link wrote:
> >> Running with ulimit ...
> >>
> >> echo "setting max user processes to unlimited..."
> >> ulimit -u unlimited
> >> echo -n "$PSQL_START"
> >> su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "$PGLIB/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p
> >> $PGLIB/bin/postmaster -o '-i' start > $PGDATA/log/syslog 2>&1" <
> >> /dev/null
> >>
> >> but still no core. I can't product that bt. Any suggestions?
>
> > Try ulimit -c...
>
> Also, the "su" very probably negates any environment settings from
> the
> outside shell script anyway. It might work to put the ulimit command
> into the postgres user's ~/.profile (or local equivalent).
>
It doesn't negate it, interestingly enough, I tested by printing out
'ulimit -a ;' just prior to the call to postmaster within su's -c statement.
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