I'll restart the database tonight to pick up the ulimit change and let you know if I capture a core file in the near future.
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Rick Otten <rottenwindfish@gmail.com> writes: > I don't have any core files. I suppose that is something I have to enable > specifically? I'm game to turn it on in case we core dump again.
If you're not seeing core files, you probably need to take measures to make the postmaster run with "ulimit -c unlimited". It's fairly common for daemon processes to get launched under "ulimit -c 0" by default, for largely-misguided-imo security reasons.
