Re: kill -KILL: What happens?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: kill -KILL: What happens?
Date: 2011-01-13 19:21:44
Message-ID: 28665.1294946504@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)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 ;-)

regards, tom lane

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