On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to limit a query to a certain amount of RAM and / or
> certain runtime?
>
> i.e. automatically kill it if it exceeds either boundary?
>
> We've finally narrowed down our system crashes and have a smoking gun,
> but no way to fix it in the immediate term. This sort of limit would
> really help us.
Generally speaking work_mem limits ram used. What are your
non-default postgresql.conf settings?
