Re: Database size

Setting user's quota on my linux machine wont affect database
quota.It will have impact on users directories.So, it must
be a trick how to set PostgreSQL quota. Or how to link PostgreSQL
database with directories which already have set quotas.

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:52 -0500, Mike Goldner wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 15:41 -0600, Nikola Radakovic wrote:
> > Or, briefly how to set Postgresql user quota?
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:01 -0500, Mike Goldner wrote:
> > > Nikola,
> > >
> > > I'm not exactly sure what you are asking.
> > >
> > > The size of the database is usually determined by the amount of data
> > > stored and not determined beforehand.
> > >
> > > Are you refering of "tablespaces", as other DBMSs use them? If so,
> > > Postgres has a tablespace command, but it simply points to a filesystem
> > > location. There is no "size" specified.
> > >
> > > The size of the database is simply limited by the available filesystem
> > > capacity (I suppose there may be some restrictions at the high-end).
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 14:48 -0600, Nikola Radakovic wrote:
> > > > Dear community,
> > > >
> > > > I would be very grateful if someone could answer me,
> > > > where to find instructions how to set the size ( in megabytes ) for
> > > > particular database.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > best regards,
> > > > N.Radakovic
> > > >
> > > >
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>
> Nikola,
>
> Setting quotas is operating system-dependent. If you are using linux,
> take a look at http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialQuotas.html
>