Marco Colombo <pg...@esiway.net> writes:
> It's a matter of correctness: I see PG as a high 
> performance database system. Allowing to start it in awfully suboptimal 
> conditions it's no different from allowing '0000-00-00' as a date: it 
> may give you the idea you did the right thing, but most of the time you 
> didn't.

Unfortunately, there are quite a few of us for whom "correctness"
doesn't mean "automatically try to eat all the resources available".
Your view of what is useful behavior is far too narrow-minded ...

                        regards, tom lane

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