Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)
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Msg-id 25046.1292776847@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I agree that having the crash dump code know anything specific about the
>> contents of shared memory is a nonstarter --- far too fragile. �But
>> perhaps we could have some simple rule based only on what the kernel
>> knows about the shmem block, like "dump shmem if it's no more than 1GB".

> Not sure what knobs we have available, but would there be any value in
> trying to dump the FIRST 1GB?

Probably not.
        regards, tom lane


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