I believe this is expected behavior the Ctrl-\ keystroke will cause a SIGQUIT to the current process. Any program that doesn't explicitly handle SIGQUIT will abort.
Regards, Shelby Cain ----- Original Message ---- From: Jeff Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: PostgreSQL <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2008 11:42:26 AM Subject: [BUGS] ctrl \ makes psql 8.2.5 dump core Hi all, I found out this morning that entering CTRL \ at the psql prompt will make psql dump core. The is reproducible on the two machines I have here. Another server running downtown just quits without dumping core. All are running 8.2.5 on OpenBSD. I thought I was in the editor, and that key combination invokes nano's search and replace function. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/wykids/training-calendar $ psql --version psql (PostgreSQL) 8.2.5 contains support for command-line editing [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/wykids/training-calendar $ psql wykids Welcome to psql 8.2.5, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help with psql commands \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query \q to quit [EMAIL PROTECTED] localhost# Quit (core dumped) The core file is less than a meg in size, so I can either upload it to our web site or e-mail it directly to someone if anyone is interested. Thanks, Jeff Ross ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org