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

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-22T17:56:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 22.11.2010 19:47, Robert Haas wrote:
> I am as conservative about back-patching as anybody here, but
> debugging on Windows is not an easy thing to do, and I strongly
> suspect we are going to point people experiencing crashes on Windows
> to this code whether it's part of our official distribution or not.

This whole thing makes me wonder: is there truly no reliable, simple 
method to tell Windows to create a core dump on crash, without writing 
custom code for it. I haven't seen one, but I find it amazing if there 
isn't. We can't be alone with this.

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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