Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> If you think your users might want to give the postmaster OOM-exemption, >> why don't you just activate the existing code when you build? Resetting >> the OOM setting to zero is safe whether or not the startup script did >> anything to the postmaster's setting.
> The whole scenario here is that the user *doesn't want to recompile*. Yeah, I understood that. The question is why EDB isn't satisfied to just add "-DLINUX_OOM_ADJ=0" to their build options, but instead would like to dump a bunch of uncertainty on other packagers who might not like the implications of a GUC. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers