Marco Colombo <pgsql@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It's a matter of correctness: I see PG as a high > performance database system. Allowing to start it in awfully suboptimal > conditions it's no different from allowing '0000-00-00' as a date: it > may give you the idea you did the right thing, but most of the time you > didn't. Unfortunately, there are quite a few of us for whom "correctness" doesn't mean "automatically try to eat all the resources available". Your view of what is useful behavior is far too narrow-minded ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general