Re: Hard limit on WAL space used (because PANIC sucks)

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> How are we supposed to wait while e.g. ProcArrayLock? Aborting
> transactions doesn't work either, that writes abort records which can
> get signficantly large.

Yeah, that's an interesting point ;-).  We can't *either* commit or abort
without emitting some WAL, possibly quite a bit of WAL.
        regards, tom lane