Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Put a ulimit command in the server start script? Depending on the
>> details of the start script you might need to put it in the postgres
>> user's .profile instead, but it's certainly doable.
> This may be a stupid question, but when you hit the limit, will it
> result in an ERROR or a PANIC?
Should be an ERROR ... if it isn't, that's probably a bug. The design
intention is that malloc failure is just an ERROR.
regards, tom lane
