On 03/16/2016 11:08 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>> Well as Andrew said, we could also create postmaster start option that
>>>> defaults to don't save.
>>>
>>> I think these days you'd simply use restart_after_crash = false. For
>>> debugging I found that to be rather valuable.
>>
>> That would have created an extended outage for this installation. I am not
>> sure we can force that for something that should not happen in the first
>> place (filling up the hard drive with dead files).
>
> Nah, I meant that if you want to debug something you'd set that (i.e. in
> the case you need the temp files), not you should set that.
Aww, yes that would be reasonable as well.
JD
--
Command Prompt, Inc. http://the.postgres.company/ +1-503-667-4564
PostgreSQL Centered full stack support, consulting and development.
Everyone appreciates your honesty, until you are honest with them.
