capturing regression test core dump

On Jul5, 2011, at 17:49 , Robert Haas wrote:

Is there any way to get the regression tests to write a core dump file
somewhere that I can get at it? I tried "ulimit -c unlimited" but
can't find any core file lying around after I reproduce the crash.

In case you're on OSX, the core dumps there are written to /cores,
not to the cwd of the process.

best regards,
Florian Pflug

Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar jul 05 11:49:48 -0400 2011:

Is there any way to get the regression tests to write a core dump file
somewhere that I can get at it? I tried "ulimit -c unlimited" but
can't find any core file lying around after I reproduce the crash.

Are you using a temp install? If so, the core files are going to end up
there, and thus go away when that's deleted. You could change the
core_pattern if you're on Linux (see core(5)) but it's probably easier
to use "make installcheck" instead.

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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org> wrote:

On Jul5, 2011, at 17:49 , Robert Haas wrote:

Is there any way to get the regression tests to write a core dump file
somewhere that I can get at it?  I tried "ulimit -c unlimited" but
can't find any core file lying around after I reproduce the crash.

In case you're on OSX, the core dumps there are written to /cores,
not to the cwd of the process.

Oh, ho! Thanks!

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Robert Haas
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