Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 14:06, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> If word of this gets out, every
>> server process on Linux will excuse itself from the OOM killer. And
>> then the kernel guys will add another setting to override the process
>> preference.
> ... maybe it will convince them its time to fix the damn thing.
> Although postgres really is kind of special in this regard.
Yeah. If they had saner handling of shared-memory accounting, maybe
there wouldn't be a need for us to kluge around the OOM logic.
regards, tom lane
