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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Kunal Gupta <kunalgupta@live.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database size in Postgresql
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:18:14 -0700
Message-ID: <485AF746.4020100@commandprompt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU126-W48DEEB352F79916DA1E598A9AA0@phx.gbl>
References: <BLU126-W48DEEB352F79916DA1E598A9AA0@phx.gbl>

Kunal Gupta wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> I have a question, I am suppose to create database with limited size. Is 
> there any way I can set limit to my database created in postgresql.

Not reasonably no.

> - Since in postgresql (or may be other also), when a database is 
> created, a path to a directory is given in which all data is stored.
> - If I restrict the size of this directory then by database size will be 
> automatically controlled.

And you might possibly corrupt data when you hit the barrier.

Joshua D. Drake



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