On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > gdb -ex=bt /path/to/bin/postgres $pid </dev/null > > I've used this on production systems to debug issues like this one, and > I've > never observed damage. The exact effect of debugger attach/detach may be > OS/kernel-dependent, so it's hard to make categorical guarantees of safety. At least on Windows NT and derivatives (until I last checked a few years ago), detaching a debugger kills the debugged process. Regards, -- Gurjeet Singh EnterpriseDB <http://www.enterprisedb.com/> Corporation The Enterprise PostgreSQL <http://www.postgresql.org/> Company