Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.6 crash

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.

-- 
greg