Re: kill -KILL: What happens? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: kill -KILL: What happens?
Date
Msg-id 20110113220002.GB8754@fetter.org
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In response to Re: kill -KILL: What happens?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:21:44PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Packagers who are paying attention have fixed that ;-)

Are we privileging packaged over unpackaged?  Some distro over others?  ;)

Cheers,
David.
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