On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 04:39:51PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > We could do better by accounting for memory usage ourselves, inside > > the memory-context system, but that'd probably impose some overhead we > > don't have today.
> I wonder how practical it would be to forestall Noah's scenario by > preallocating all the stack space we want before enabling the rlimit. I think that's worth a closer look. Compared to doing our own memory usage tracking, it has the major advantage of isolating the added CPU overhead at backend start. -- Noah Misch EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers