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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Jon Jensen <jon@endpoint.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Can't find thread on Linux memory overcommit
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:04:13 -0400
Message-ID: <14228.1061485453@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308210916.29790.josh@agliodbs.com>
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Well, sadly, the reason I posted is that I (apparently) had a client's 
> database fatally corrupted by this problem.  

"Fatally corrupted"?  That should not happen --- at worst, an OOM kill
should lose your current sessions.  We need more details.

			regards, tom lane



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