Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.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.
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greg