On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 11:14 -0800, David Fetter wrote: > I get that we can't prevent all pilot error, but I was hoping we could > bullet-proof this a little more, especially in light of a certain > extremely popular server OS's OOM killer's default behavior.
That's a good point. I'm not sure how much action can reasonably be taken, however. > Yes, I get that that behavior is crazy, and stupid, and that people > should shut it off, but it *is* our problem if we let the postmaster > start (or continue) when it's set that way. As an aside, linux has actually changed the heuristic: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a63d83f427fbce97a6cea0db2e64b0eb8435cd10 Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
