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

Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>

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From: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-23T23:28:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 11/24/2010 05:18 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> Or you set the handler always, and have the handler only actually
> create the dump if the directory exists. That way you can add the
> directory and still get  a dump from both existing backends and the
> postmaster itself without a restart.

That's way smarter. No extra filesystem access during startup, even if 
it is cheap.

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Craig Ringer