[ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-03 Thread Dev
Hi,     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? I've considered creating a tablespace in a directory owned by the user , so I can use Linux quotas to

Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? E

Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-03 Thread Dev
: Kevin Grittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 6:28 PM >>> Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a single Postgres server which will be ho

Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-03 Thread Montaseri
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > From: Kevin Grittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes > To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 6:28 PM > > >>> Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Kevin Grittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Have you considered running a different cluster for each user? > Doesn't it get difficult to manage so many instances of servers ? We haven't found it to be so. xargs is your friend, fed by fi

Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-03 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Le 3 juil. 08 à 18:07, Dev a écrit : I've considered creating a tablespace in a directory owned by the user , so I can use Linux quotas to prevent higher disk usage , but this turned out be a bad thought, as all the files are anyway owned b

Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-03 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:10:47PM +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > >I've considered creating a tablespace in a directory owned by the > >user , so I can use Linux quotas to prevent higher disk usage , but > >this turned out be a bad thought, as all the files are anyway owned > >by the postg

Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-04 Thread Dev
rze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 9:17 PM On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:10:47PM +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > >I've considered creating a tablespace in a directory owned by