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

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.

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Robert Haas
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