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 25138.1292777163@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 17:28, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> 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?

> So such knob that I can find. Basically, we pick a combination of the flags at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680519(v=VS.85).aspx

Yeah, I thought I was probably asking for something that couldn't
practically be supported.  Let's try it as-is for a few releases
and see how it goes.
        regards, tom lane


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