Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> It doesn't seem impossible to get into a situation where syslogger is
> the source of the OOM. Just enabling a lot of logging in a workload with
> many large query strings might do it. So making it less likely to be
> killed might make the problem worse...
Hm, so that's another angle David didn't report on: is it possible that
his workload could have resulted in a very large volume of incomplete
in-progress log messages?
regards, tom lane