On 11/24/2010 05:18 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Or you set the handler always, and have the handler only actually
> create the dump if the directory exists. That way you can add the
> directory and still get a dump from both existing backends and the
> postmaster itself without a restart.
That's way smarter. No extra filesystem access during startup, even if
it is cheap.
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Craig Ringer