Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> writes: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think that it is not worth mentioning specifically for >> temp_file_limit; to me that seems to be a hole with no bottom. We'll >> end up arguing about which GUCs should mention it specifically and >> there will be no end to it.
> I don't think that you need it for any other GUC, so I really don't > know why you're concerned about a slippery slope. FWIW, I agree with Robert on this. It seems just weird to call out temp_file_limit specifically. Also, I don't agree that that's the only interesting per-process resource consumption; max_files_per_process seems much more likely to cause trouble in practice. Perhaps we could change the wording of temp_file_limit's description from "space that a session can use" to "space that a process can use" to help clarify this? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers