Ron Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That shared memory of the children should not be added to the size > of the parent process multiple times regardless of if something's > an essential process or not. Since those bytes are shared, it > seems such bytes should only be added to the badness once, no?
Certainly that would help, and it might be an easier sell to the kernel hackers: instead of arguing "this policy is foolish", we only have to say "your VM accounting is wildly inaccurate". We'd still end up with a postmaster at more risk than we'd like, but at least not at dozens of times more risk than any backend. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(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