On 2016-03-16 11:02:09 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>3. The problem can get worse over time. If you have a very long running
> >>instance, any time the backend crash-restarts you have to potential to
> >>increase disk space used for no purpose.
> >
> >But I think these outweigh the debugging benefit.
>
> Well as Andrew said, we could also create postmaster start option that
> defaults to don't save.
I think these days you'd simply use restart_after_crash = false. For
debugging I found that to be rather valuable.
Andres