Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2882E005B for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:29:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 33523-01-4 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:29:12 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8501B2E00CE for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:18:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.226] (or-69-34-217-90.sta.embarqhsd.net [69.34.217.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5K0Jpxe030638 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:19:52 -0700 Message-ID: <485AF746.4020100@commandprompt.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:18:14 -0700 From: "Joshua D. Drake" Organization: Command Prompt, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kunal Gupta CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Database size in Postgresql References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:19:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/169 X-Sequence-Number: 29507 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