On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> This patch gives the user a control to let the backend's likelyhood of
>> being killed be different/higher than that of the postmaster.
>
> 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*.
You seem to be trying to relitigate an argument that Gurjeet already
discussed in his original post and I already refuted once after that.
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