Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)
Date: 2010-11-22 17:56:03
Message-ID: 4CEAAEB3.4070509@enterprisedb.com
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On 22.11.2010 19:47, Robert Haas wrote:
> I am as conservative about back-patching as anybody here, but
> debugging on Windows is not an easy thing to do, and I strongly
> suspect we are going to point people experiencing crashes on Windows
> to this code whether it's part of our official distribution or not.

This whole thing makes me wonder: is there truly no reliable, simple
method to tell Windows to create a core dump on crash, without writing
custom code for it. I haven't seen one, but I find it amazing if there
isn't. We can't be alone with this.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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