Re: elog(PANIC) should abort()?

Tom Lane writes:

> I am thinking it would be useful for debugging if elog(PANIC) were to
> exit by calling abort() so that a core dump would be produced.
>
> Going out via proc_exit(), as it now does, seems like a bad idea in any
> case, since that will try to do a bunch of cleanup activity that's
> probably inappropriate after a panic.

But is this appropriate?

PANIC:  The database cluster was initialized with CATALOG_VERSION_NO 200210181,       but the backend was compiled with
CATALOG_VERSION_NO200211021.       It looks like you need to initdb.
 
Aborted (core dumped)

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net