Hi guys,

As it is right now Django has the tendency to kill either your browser (if 
you're lucky) or the entire application server when confronted with a large 
database. For example, the admin always does counts for pagination and a 
count over a table with many rows (say, in the order of 100M) can really 
stall your app and database servers.

In the past I've simply patched Django to include a few "security" features 
for cases like these so someone can't accidently kill the site by doing 
something silly, but I was wondering if it would be a good idea to include 
some of these configurable options in the core.

Examples:
 - If COUNT_LIMIT is set than wrap counts in a subquery and limit the 
results: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT pk FROM table LIMIT <COUNT_LIMIT>)
 - When someone does "if queryset" automatically limit it to a default 
slice size so someone doesn't accidently fetch all rows in the queryset.

~wolph

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