Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2020-06-06 06:57, Thomas Munro wrote: >> We're carrying a bunch of obsolete and in one case insecure advice on >> kernel settings. Here's an attempt to clean some of that up.
> These changes seem sensible to me.
+1
+1 as well.
>> HP-UX: >> * Drop advice for v10. 11.x came out 23 years ago.
> We still have a version 10 in the build farm. :)
Yeah, but I don't need advice on installing PG on that ;-). In general, I think the filter rule could be: is it likely that someone would try to install PG 13-or-later from scratch (with no pre-existing installation) on this OS version? If there is a pre-existing install, they'll already have dealt with any kernel configuration issues.
So I concur with dropping all this stuff, and while we're at it I'd vote for getting rid of the oom_adj para. RHEL6 will be fully EOL around the time PG13 comes out, so I don't believe anyone's making brand new installs there either.
Let's hope PG13 isn't that late -- the end of Extended Lifecycle Support is June 30, 2024 for RHEL 6. (It *enters* ELS around the time of pg 13).
And yes, given that, you'd be surprised how many people make brand new installs on that. That said, they *shoudln't*, so I'm fine with dropping the instructions for those as well. With luck it might encourage some people to realize it's a bad idea...