Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar jul 05 11:49:48 -0400 2011:
> Is there any way to get the regression tests to write a core dump file
> somewhere that I can get at it? I tried "ulimit -c unlimited" but
> can't find any core file lying around after I reproduce the crash.
Are you using a temp install? If so, the core files are going to end up
there, and thus go away when that's deleted. You could change the
core_pattern if you're on Linux (see core(5)) but it's probably easier
to use "make installcheck" instead.
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