Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: macOS Ventura won't generate core dumps - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: macOS Ventura won't generate core dumps
Date
Msg-id CA+TgmoZnrjfthCouZ+JSQg2=wLLok+Qu4MQp+3=rcDeTyt5N4A@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: macOS Ventura won't generate core dumps  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: macOS Ventura won't generate core dumps  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
Tree view 
On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 3:44 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Works for me on Sonoma 14.4.1 and Ventura 13.6.6, and has done
> in many versions before those.
>
> The usual gotchas apply: you need to have started the postmaster
> under "ulimit -c unlimited", and the /cores directory has to be
> writable by whatever user the postmaster is running as.  I have
> occasionally seen system updates reduce the privileges on /cores,
> although not recently.

Interesting. I'm on Ventura 13.6.2. I think I've checked all of the
stuff you mention, but I'll do some more investigation.

--
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Robert Haas
Date:
Subject: Re: simplehash.h: "SH_SCOPE static" causes warnings
Next
From: Alexander Korotkov
Date:
Subject: Re: post-freeze damage control