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    MDEV-30242 MTR fails to report stack traces of all threads by default · 9f8fc983
    Marko Mäkelä authored
    An unfortunate change to the default behavior of the handling of
    core dumps was implemented in
    commit e9be5428
    by making MTR_PRINT_CORE=small the default value, that is, to
    only display the stack trace of one thread in crash reports.
    Many if not most failures that occur in regression tests are
    sporadic and involve race conditions or deadlocks. To be able to
    analyze such failures, having the stack traces of all active threads
    is a must, because CI environments typically do not save any core dumps.
    
    While the environment variable MTR_PRINT_CORE could be set in CI
    environments to compensate for the unfortunate change, it is better
    to revert to the old default (dumping all threads) so that
    no explicit action will be required from maintainers of independent
    CI systems. In that case, if something fails once in a blue moon,
    we can have some hope of diagnosing it based on the output.
    
    We fix this regression by defaulting the unset environment variable
    MTR_PRINT_CORE to "medium".
    9f8fc983
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