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From Tom Lane
Subject elog(PANIC) should abort()?
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Msg-id 7651.1036083046@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Responses Re: elog(PANIC) should abort()?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: elog(PANIC) should abort()?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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I am thinking it would be useful for debugging if elog(PANIC) were to
exit by calling abort() so that a core dump would be produced.

Going out via proc_exit(), as it now does, seems like a bad idea in any
case, since that will try to do a bunch of cleanup activity that's
probably inappropriate after a panic.

Comments?
        regards, tom lane

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