"Bath, David" <dave.bath@xxxxxxxx> writes: > C) I want to avoid the possibility of uncontrolled growth of luser data > blowing disk leading to stoppage of 24x7 data. You put the luser data and the critical data into separate tablespaces that are in separate partitions (filesystems). End of problem ... (And no, I don't believe in having Postgres reinvent filesystem-level functionality. If you didn't set up appropriate hard partitions, consider a loopback filesystem for your tablespace.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings