On 4/29/21 4:16 PM, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 4/29/21 6:56 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> For testing unusual situations I'd like to be able to cause a backend
>> to terminate due to something like a segfault. Do we currently have
>> this in testing ?
>
> If you can run SQL as a superuser from that backend, try:
>
> COPY (SELECT pg_backend_pid())
> TO PROGRAM 'xargs kill -SIGSEGV';
>
> HTH,
>
> Joe
>
or a plperlu function that does 'kill 11, $$;' should do it.
cheers
andrew
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