Re: kill -KILL: What happens?

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:45:07PM -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > I can't see automating it though. We already have a perfectly
> > good solution to the automated shutdown problem.
>
> Oh, I totally agree with that. I somehow thought we'd gotten off
> into how someone could recover after shooting their foot.

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.

Cheers,
David.
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