From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.6 crash |
Date: | 2006-02-09 20:13:22 |
Message-ID: | 878xsk70kd.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > > It doesn't seem like a bad idea to have a max_memory parameter that if a
> > > backend ever exceeded it would immediately abort the current
> > > transaction.
> >
> > See ulimit (or local equivalent).
>
> As much as setting ulimit in shell scripts is fun, I have to admit that
> I really don't see it happening very much.
For one thing it requires admin access to the startup scripts to arrange this.
And it's always cluster-wide.
Having a GUC parameter would mean it could be set per-session. Even if the GUC
parameter were just implemented by calling setrlimit it might be useful.
--
greg
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