Re: Database quota

From: Fernando Schapachnik <fschapachnik(at)vianetworks(dot)com(dot)ar>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Database quota
Date: 2002-03-15 20:45:56
Message-ID: 20020315174556.M74373@ns1.via-net-works.net.ar
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En un mensaje anterior, Tom Lane escribió:
> Fernando Schapachnik <fschapachnik(at)vianetworks(dot)com(dot)ar> writes:
> > Is there any way to stablish a maximum size for a database? Would
> > setting each database directory to user:pgsql, 770 and setting a file
> > system quota for user "user" work? I mean, would postmaster handle
> > the limit gracefully?
>
> If you can exclude pg_xlog and pg_clog from the quota, I believe that
> failure to extend other tables would be reasonably graceful. Failure to
> extend the log files will cause a system stop, however. (The good news
> is that the sizes of the log file directories are fairly predictable.
> Log file segments are recycled when no longer needed, so the total space
> used doesn't really grow without bound, at least not in 7.2.)

Taking that into account everything works fine.

Thanks!

Fernando P. Schapachnik
fschapachnik(at)vianetworks(dot)com(dot)ar

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