Re: User Quota Implementation

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jharris(at)tvi(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: User Quota Implementation
Date: 2004-07-09 16:09:38
Message-ID: 1089389377.15774.117.camel@jester
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> > Group quotas should be sufficient. Create directory readable/writable to
> > only the pgsql user, but have the group ownership be representative of
> > the user in question.
>
> Rather ugly, and you'll run out of groups if you have alot of users (the
> postgres user can only be in so many groups). It's a cute idea but I
> really don't see it as being viable.

The postgres user doesn't need to be in any of the groups, the group
simply exists simply to give the directory representation for a quota.

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