On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 4:29 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes: > > I wondered if the build farm should try to report OOM kill -9 or other > > signal activity affecting the postmaster. > > Yeah, I've been wondering whether pg_ctl could fork off a subprocess > that would fork the postmaster, wait for the postmaster to exit, and then > report the exit status. Where to report it *to* seems like the hard part, > but maybe an answer that worked for the buildfarm would be enough for now.
Oh, right, you don't even need subreaper tricks (I was imagining we had a double fork somewhere we don't). Another question is whether the build farm should be setting the Linux oom score adjust thing. -- Thomas Munro https://enterprisedb.com
