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

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 19:39, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 18:46, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> ... I haven't looked at the patch but this
>>> discussion makes it sound like the dumper is dependent on an
>>> uncomfortably large amount of backend code being functional.
>
>> No, it's dependent on close to zero backend functionality.
>> Particularly if we take out the dependency on elog() (write_stderr is
>> much simpler). In fact, the calls to elog() are the *only* places
>> where it calls into the backend as it stands today.
>
> Well, in the contrib-module guise, it's dependent on
> shared_preload_libraries or local_preload_libraries, which at least
> involves guc and dfmgr working pretty well (and not only in the
> postmaster, but during backend startup).

Yes, sorry. My mindset was in "the version that'll go into 9.1".

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