Florian G. Pflug wrote:
Maybe we should just react equally brute-force, and just disable the OOM-Killer for the postmaster if we're running on linux. It seems that something like "echo -17 > /proc/<pid>/oom_adj" should do the trick.
That will protect the postmaster but none of the children. And it will be very fragile, as only root can do it.
And maybe add a note to the docs telling people to disable memory overcommit on dedicated database servers if that isn't already there...
It is there, and has been for years. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match