Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Will running a debug-enabled build slow things noticably down? gcc promises that the generated code is the same with or without debug. I think clang does too. With other compilers you may pay some penalty. > Is there a way > to make it dump a stack-trace (or back-trace in C-land?) on sig11? You should be able to get a core file from which you can extract a stack trace (and other info) after the fact. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Generating_a_stack_trace_of_a_PostgreSQL_backend regards, tom lane