| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca> |
| 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 16:44:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20040709164439.GI21419@ns.snowman.net |
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* Rod Taylor (pg(at)rbt(dot)ca) wrote:
> > > 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.
I'm not sure if this would really work... Are you sure the quota would
be enforced against a user not in the group? Of course, I still see it
as very ugly and a workaround at best...
Stephen
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