Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> There could well be moving parts if the user wants to adjust the value
> being written to oom_adj, and can't because it's compiled in. I don't
> see why we can't just add a GUC for this and be done with it.
The number of users who will want to do that might be different from
epsilon, but not by enough to justify a GUC. Furthermore, we don't have
any reasonable infrastructure for supporting platform-specific GUCs,
which means that the amount of effort you're proposing is extremely
large.
regards, tom lane