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

You know, the PANIC isn't there just because we like to piss of
users. There's actual technical reasons that don't just go away by
judging the PANIC as stupid.
At the points where the XLogInsert()s happens we're in critical sections
out of which we *cannot* ERROR out because we already may have made
modifications that cannot be allowed to be performed
partially/unlogged. That's why we're throwing a PANIC which will force a
cluster wide restart including *NOT* writing any further buffers from
s_b out.