Re: pg_dumpall dies

Henrik Farre <look@my.signature.txt> writes:
> Server process (pid 24536) exited with status 138 at Sat Feb 21 12:52:49 2004
> Terminating any active server processes...

> I have set "ulimit -c coredumpsize", but I don't get a core dump.

You certainly should get a core dump.  Are you sure you set the ulimit
in the postmaster's starting environment?  Did you look for the core
file in the right place?  A backend will dump core in the directory
of its database, that is, $PGDATA/base/your-db-oid/core.

            regards, tom lane