Am 06.04.2012 23:49, schrieb Jeff Davis: >> No, i didn't found any in my postgresql dirs. Should i have a core file >> around when i see a segmentation fault? What should i look for? > > It's an OS setup thing, but generally a crash will generate a core file > if it is allowed to. Use "ulimit -c unlimited" on linux in the shell > that starts postgresql and I think that will work. You can test it by > manually doing a "kill -11" on the pid of a backend process. My system was setup with $ cat /proc/32741/limits Limit Soft Limit Hard Limit Units ... Max core file size 0 unlimited bytes ... to bad, no core dump. I will follow instructions on peters blog here <http://petereisentraut.blogspot.de/2011/06/enabling-core-files-for-postgresql-on.html> So next time i'll be ready to handle this issue. Thanks a lot for your help, jeff. regards Janning -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general