diff --git a/postgres-appliance/runit/patroni/run b/postgres-appliance/runit/patroni/run
index 9055c08c3..c92fe9708 100755
--- a/postgres-appliance/runit/patroni/run
+++ b/postgres-appliance/runit/patroni/run
@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ then
 fi
 
 # Enable core dumps
-ulimit -c unlimited
+if ! ulimit -c unlimited
+then
+   echo "Failed to set unlimited size for coredump"
+fi
 
 # Only small subset of environment variables is allowed. We don't want accidentally disclose sensitive information
 for E in $(printenv -0 | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/\x00/\n/g' | grep -vE '^(KUBERNETES_(SERVICE|PORT|ROLE)[_=]|((POD_(IP|NAMESPACE))|HOSTNAME|PATH|PGHOME|LC_ALL|ENABLE_PG_MON)=)' | sed 's/=.*//g'); do