Re: BUG #17757: Not honoring huge_pages setting during initdb causes DB crash in Kubernetes

Hi,

On 2023-01-23 20:35:17 +0000, Sisson, David wrote:
> A quick and dirty solution could be to alter initdb to catch the exception and retry using a copy of the sample with
"huge_pages=false".
> Would that be acceptable?

This is a kubernetes or postgres-operator bug (setting up the wrong cgroup
limit, which the docs explicitly warn against doing). I don't think we want to
accumulate workarounds like that in postgres.


> Passing in a config setting into initdb would still require a rebuild of all controllers.
> That could take months to years at best.

Huh. I don't know anything about the controller, but that seems problematic
independent of this specific issue. And you'd still need to deploy a new
version of postgres to get such changes...


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Hardly.

Greetings,

Andres Freund