Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-12-19T16:46:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 17:28, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> 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?

> So such knob that I can find. Basically, we pick a combination of the flags at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680519(v=VS.85).aspx

Yeah, I thought I was probably asking for something that couldn't
practically be supported.  Let's try it as-is for a few releases
and see how it goes.

			regards, tom lane