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    Improve our mechanism for controlling the Linux out-of-memory killer. · df8b7bc9
    Tom Lane authored
    Arrange for postmaster child processes to respond to two environment
    variables, PG_OOM_ADJUST_FILE and PG_OOM_ADJUST_VALUE, to determine whether
    they reset their OOM score adjustments and if so to what.  This is superior
    to the previous design involving #ifdef's in several ways.  The behavior is
    now available in a default build, and both ends of the adjustment --- the
    original adjustment of the postmaster's level and the subsequent
    readjustment by child processes --- can now be controlled in one place,
    namely the postmaster launch script.  So it's no longer necessary for the
    launch script to act on faith that the server was compiled with the
    appropriate options.  In addition, if someone wants to use an OOM score
    other than zero for the child processes, that doesn't take a recompile
    anymore; and we no longer have to cater separately to the two different
    historical kernel APIs for this adjustment.
    
    Gurjeet Singh, somewhat revised by me
    df8b7bc9
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