Jeff Davis wrote:
> > We do allow limitation on how mush _shared_ memory an instanace can
> > have, but each session allocates its own memory independently as a Unix
> > process. We do support multiple databases and, in 7.3beta, schemas.
>
> Wouldn't it be pretty easy to run postgres through a process that has a
> setrlimit on the memory? I assume that postgres handles memory errors
> gracefully. I think the shared memory limit combined with setrlimit would
> give him what he needs.
Yes, you could do that. Of course, a backend that exceeds it is going
to die, but it seems that's what he wants.
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