Re: crash help, pgsql 7.2.1 on RH7.3

On Saturday 23 November 2002 12:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Tim Lynch" <admin(at)thirdage(dot)com> writes:
> > but, uh, what am i going to do with a core file? i would need a
> > non-stripped postgres binary first, right?

> Yup, you would. I'd recommend building from source so that you can add
> both --enable-debug and --enable-cassert to the configure flags. (It
> may actually be possible to do that with the SRPM distro, but I don't
> know how...)

Install the source RPM (.src.rpm), then edit
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/postgresql.spec, changing the line near the top that
says:
%define beta 0
to
%define beta 1

Save and exit, then 'rpmbuild -ba postgresql.spec', then install the rpms to
be found in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/arch (i386 probably).

beta=1 defines both --enable-debug and --enable-cassert and allows the full
debugging, AFAIK. If it doesn't, then we need to look a little closer at
it...
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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