pg_crash

Overview

PIGSTY 3rd Party Extension: pg_crash : Send random signals to random processes

Information

• Extension ID: 5190
• Extension Name: pg_crash
• Package Name: pg_crash
• Category: ADMIN
• License: BSD 3
• Website: https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pg_crash
• Language: C
• Extra Tags: N/A
• Comment: N/A

Metadata

• Latest Version: 1.0
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Explicit Loading Required
• Need DDL: Dd not need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Can be installed into other schemas
• Trusted: Unknown
• Schemas: N/A
• Requires: N/A

RPM / DEB

• RPM Repo: PIGSTY
• RPM Name: pg_crash_$v*
• RPM Ver : 1.0
• RPM Deps: N/A
• DEB Repo: PIGSTY
• DEB Name: postgresql-$v-pg-crash
• DEB Ver : 1.0
• DEB Deps: N/A

Availability

Installation

Install pg_crash via the pig CLI tool:

pig ext install pg_crash

Install pg_crash via Pigsty playbook:

./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["pg_crash"]}' # -l <cls>

Install pg_crash RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install pg_crash_17*;
dnf install pg_crash_16*;
dnf install pg_crash_15*;
dnf install pg_crash_14*;
dnf install pg_crash_13*;

Install pg_crash DEB from APT repo directly:

apt install postgresql-17-pg-crash;
apt install postgresql-16-pg-crash;
apt install postgresql-15-pg-crash;
apt install postgresql-14-pg-crash;
apt install postgresql-13-pg-crash;

Extension pg_crash has to be loaded via shared_preload_libraries

shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_crash'; # add to pg cluster config

Extension %s does not need CREATE EXTENSION command