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From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>,<dev_hyd2001@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Best way to limit database sizes
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>>> Dev <dev_hyd2001@yahoo.com> wrote: 
>         I have a single Postgres server which will be hosting
multiple 
> databases belonging to different users. What would be the
recommendation to 
> limit the size of each of the databases? 
 
Have you considered running a different cluster for each user?
Each should be run with a different OS user ID, and it would be
pretty easy to limit the size of each.
 
-Kevin