Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:49:54PM +0200, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:
>> I am running FC4 on x86. There is no core dump.
> Just to be sure: where are you looking? I don't know if it's
> configurable on your platform, but I usually find core dumps under
> $PGDATA/base/<databaseoid>/.
CVS tip of the last forty-eight hours or so would dump into $PGDATA
instead. It's a good bet though that "ulimit -c" is set to 0 (no dumps)
by default on that platform. I tend to put
ulimit -c unlimited
into the postmaster startup script on Linux machines, so that I can get
core dumps.
regards, tom lane
