Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> ... And then we'd need to change the regression makefile to use >>> the option, based on an environment variable a bit like >>> MAX_CONNEXCTIONS >>> maybe. >> >> Why wouldn't we just use it always? If a regression test dumps core, >> that's going to deserve investigation. > > enabling it always for the regression tests probably makes sense - but > there is also the possibility that such a core can get very large and > potentially run the partitition the regression test runs on out of space. > >
I think Tom is right. You can always set the hard limit before calling "make check" or running the buildfarm script. I'll prepare a patch to use similar code unconditionally in pg_regress. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
