> From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > How do i get the core files to examine? There never seem to be any
> > produced, even outside the debuggers. > > Most likely you have launched the postmaster under "ulimit -c 0", which > prevents core dumps. This seems to be the default state in recent Linux > releases, for reasons I cannot fathom :-(. I put "ulimit -c unlimited" > into the postmaster launch script whenever I am working on Linux. > > regards, tom lane > I have set "ulimit -c unlimited" as you sugested, i then copied postmaster to /home/postgres and ran it as postgres from there... but still no core files. Where should they appear? I tried running from the command line and from within gdb and ddd. Still the same segfaulting problem with to_tsvector(). Is it a problem with tsearch2? Thanks, Mat -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster