I said: > "Tim Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> i don't see a core file.
> Check that you are starting the postmaster with "ulimit -c unlimited"; > this is not the default on most Linuxen, so you may have to add that to > the start script. Also note that the postmaster never does a chdir, > so if it drops core it will be in the same directory the start script > was running in. Drat, I forgot to mention an important corollary: make sure the postmaster is started in a directory that's writable by the postgres user, else you'll get no corefile. (For completeness I'll mention here that when individual backends dump core, it's in the $PGDATA/base/nnn/ directory of the database they're connected to. So you can easily distinguish a postmaster core from a backend core, just by where it was dropped.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]