Re: No core file generated after PostgresNode->start

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:21 PM Andy Fan <zhihui.fan1213@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Looks this doesn't mean a crash.   If the test case(subscription/t/013_partition.pl)
> > failed,  test framework kill some process, which leads the above message.  So you can
> > ignore this issue now.  Thanks
>
> I think there might be a real issue here someplace, though, because I
> couldn't get a core dump last week when I did have a crash happening
> locally. I didn't poke into it very hard though so I never figured out
> exactly why not, but ulimit -c unlimited didn't help.

Could "sysctl kernel.core_pattern" be the problem? I discovered this setting
sometime when I also couldn't find the core dump on linux.


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