From: Tim Gustafson
Date: May 21 2010 1:55am
Subject: Re: Database Quotas
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> Use postgres, you can assign tablespaces to a partition
> of the size you want. When it gets full, writes are
> refused. I'm not sure how nicely that is handled ( in
> terms of error output ) but the advantage is that Pg is
> ACID compliant, so  you won't lose data.

Wow, that's the first time I've read a message on a support list that seriously said "use another program" in response to a (IMHO) reasonable feature request.  :)

But then again, your domain name is "obviouslymalicious.com", so...

Tim Gustafson
Baskin School of Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
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