Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEEAA650E8F for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:48:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29206-01 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:48:02 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from web53708.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web53708.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.37.29]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAE37650E87 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:48:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 21236 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Jul 2008 17:48:01 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=G0WBEzopDOCbtV5Oa2bWPvoXAELcpUiLGQyQrtZLyaCAx3bHxlMQmK+E7fPQ8jOHu2sAC/d5Ae8bHtwoph9IMx3y1Uq7k9suR/2WnkmU2bCixY5DuYQGLDHcQ1QzZr58SRIEH6oufDUF2C88JjRow38gpOmXGS7/1nW9QRSu5Yg=; Received: from [83.249.198.89] by web53708.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:48:01 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.199 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:48:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Dev Reply-To: dev_hyd2001@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Best way to limit database sizes To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <486CB7E4.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1889021544-1215107281=:20954" Message-ID: <869366.20954.qm@web53708.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.001 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200807/44 X-Sequence-Number: 29654 --0-1889021544-1215107281=:20954 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii yes, thats an option but currently the last resort! Doesn't it get difficult to manage so many instances of servers ? Also don't we then need to keep track of different port numbers for each user/group ? /Dev --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Kevin Grittner wrote: From: Kevin Grittner Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, dev_hyd2001@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 6:28 PM >>> Dev 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 --0-1889021544-1215107281=:20954 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
yes, thats an option but currently the last resort! Doesn't it get difficult to manage so many instances of servers ? Also don't we then need to keep track of different port numbers for each user/group ?

/Dev


--- On Thu, 7/3/08, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, dev_hyd2001@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 6:28 PM

>>> 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

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