Re: per user/database connections limit again

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. Juli 2005 18:31 schrieb Tom Lane:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > The new syntax for this command is CREATE/ALTER DATABASE/USER:
> > >                 | MAX CONNECTIONS Iconst
> > >
> > > This adds 'max' as a keyword, though at a fairly unreserved level, I
> > > think.  Should we use the syntax LIMIT CONNECTIONS so we don't have to
> > > add MAX as a keyword at all?
> >
> > I didn't like that either.  I was thinking of just CONNECTIONS.
> > LIMIT CONNECTIONS sort of works grammatically, I guess.
>
> Would this not work in the context of the general user-specific ALTER USER ...
> SET something = something?

No because it isn't a GUC variable, it is per-user/db value.  We could
have used that syntax, but it might confuse people.

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