Re: WIP - Add ability to constrain backend temporary file space

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-18T13:34:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Mark Kirkwood
<mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> This is WIP, it does seem to work ok, but some areas/choices I'm not
> entirely clear about are mentioned in the patch itself. Mainly:
>
> - name of the guc... better suggestions welcome
> - datatype for the guc - real would be good, but at the moment the nice
> parse KB/MB/GB business only works for int

Please add this to the next CommitFest:

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open

With respect to the datatype of the GUC, int seems clearly correct.
Why would you want to use a float?

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