Re: kill -KILL: What happens?

David Fetter <david@fetter.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