On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 4:34 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Huh, that's odd. One idea that comes to mind is that the core files
> are frickin' large, for me typically around 3.5GB-4GB even for a
> postmaster running with default shared memory sizes. (I don't know
> why, although it seems to me they were le
Robert Haas writes:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 3:44 PM Tom Lane wrote:
>> The usual gotchas apply: you need to have started the postmaster
>> under "ulimit -c unlimited", and the /cores directory has to be
>> writable by whatever user the postmaster is running as. I have
>> occasionally seen syste
On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 3:44 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Works for me on Sonoma 14.4.1 and Ventura 13.6.6, and has done
> in many versions before those.
>
> The usual gotchas apply: you need to have started the postmaster
> under "ulimit -c unlimited", and the /cores directory has to be
> writable by what
Robert Haas writes:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 2:37 PM Tom Lane wrote:
>> Still works for me, at least on machines where I have SIP turned
>> off. Admittedly, Apple's busy making that a less and less desirable
>> choice.
> What exact version are you running?
Works for me on Sonoma 14.4.1 and Ven
On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 2:37 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas writes:
> > At least not for me. According to various things I found on the
> > Internet, it's now required that you codesign your binaries and give
> > them an entitlement in order to generate core dumps:
>
> Still works for me, at lea
Robert Haas writes:
> At least not for me. According to various things I found on the
> Internet, it's now required that you codesign your binaries and give
> them an entitlement in order to generate core dumps:
Still works for me, at least on machines where I have SIP turned
off. Admittedly, Ap
Hi,
On 2024-04-09 13:35:51 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> Now, if DYLD_* is ignored, then our regression tests won't work
> properly. But if core dumps are not enabled, then how am I supposed to
> debug things that can only be debugged with a core dump?
FWIW, I posted a patch a while back to make me
