On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 23:49, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> ... and that would be a seriously bad API. There are not SUSET
>> restrictions on other resources such as work_mem. Why do we need
>> one for this?
>
> I think a better analogy would be imposing a maximum number of rows a
> query can output. That might be a sane thing to have for some
> circumstances but it's not useful in general.
Uh. You mean like LIMIT, which we already have?
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