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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
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.