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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)
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Msg-id AANLkTim5fRWcLGr6Rmtf1JWyig9TpwvBDSpD+cWqDsoZ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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?

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Robert Haas
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