On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:06:19PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:38:45PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> > > Reproduced the crash, but still no core file... where exactly should it
> > > have been put? Would in be outside of $PGDATA?
> >
> > In 8.0 I'd expect to find it in $PGDATA/base/DBOID/core (or possibly
> > core.NNNN). There are some platforms like Darwin that tend to put
> > core files in a fixed directory such as /cores, though.
>
> Grr... /etc/profile had
> ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> Is there any way to verify what limits are in place for a running
> backend?
Also, is an assert guaranteed to dump core?
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