Re: It happened again: Server hung up solid

From: Michael Robinson <robinson(at)netrinsics(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: It happened again: Server hung up solid
Date: 2000-05-08 02:50:43
Message-ID: 200005080250.KAA02965@netrinsics.com
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>Try killing the postmaster itself in such a way as to produce a coredump
>(kill -ABORT ought to do) and get a backtrace from that.

The "gcore" command (on most modern unices) will generate a core dump of a
running process without killing the process. It seems that would be more
useful in this circumstance.

-Michael Robinson

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