Re: Exposing the cgroup memory limit to SQL?

From: Joao Detomini <joao(dot)detomini(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Umar Hayat <postgresql(dot)wizard(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Exposing the cgroup memory limit to SQL?
Date: 2026-10-04 21:22:20
Message-ID: CABH8dKytV-h0x7jD4-ku-JricFrqyCTc3ArHOLZQ53Nu_-HS5A@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,
Thanks, I hadn't come across pgnodemx. cgroup_scalar_bigint('memory.max')
covers what I had in mind, so I'll drop the idea of a function in core.

Em dom., 4 de out. de 2026 às 15:58, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
escreveu:

> On 10/1/26 23:05, Umar Hayat wrote:
> > Hi,
> > There is the PostgreSQL wiki page "Cgroups"[1] explaining the problem
> > statement and also potential issues for implementation.
> > Seems like nobody proposed any implementation for cgroups yet
> >
> > Regards
> > Umar Hayat
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Cgroups
>
>
> This is not in the postgres tree, but I think it does what you are
> looking for (plus a lot more): https://github.com/pgnodemx/pgnodemx
>
> --
> Joe Conway
> PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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>

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