Bump soft open file limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE) to hard limit on startup

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ID 5570
Title Bump soft open file limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE) to hard limit on startup
CI (CFBot) Needs rebase! Needs rebase since 2 weeks. Failing since 2 months.
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Stats (from CFBot) Unknown
Topic Miscellaneous
Tags Multithreading
Created 2025-02-11 18:53:55
Last modified 2025-12-01 23:57:57 (4 hours ago)
Latest email 2025-11-03 17:04:28 (4 weeks ago)
Status
PG19-4 (2026-01-01 – 2026-01-31): Needs review
PG19-3 (2025-11-01 – 2025-11-30): Moved to different CF
PG19-2 (2025-09-01 – 2025-09-30): Moved to different CF
PG19-1 (2025-07-01 – 2025-07-31): Moved to different CF
2025-03 (2025-03-01 – 2025-04-08): Moved to different CF
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Authors Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef)
Reviewers Peter Eisentraut (petere)Become reviewer
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Bump soft open file limit (RLIMIT_NOFILE) to hard limit on startup
First at 2025-02-11 18:52:34 by Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres at jeltef.nl>
Latest at 2025-11-03 17:04:28 by "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl>
Latest attachment (v8-0001-Adds-a-helper-for-places-that-shell-out-to-system.patch) at 2025-11-03 17:04:28 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl>
    Attachment (v8-0001-Adds-a-helper-for-places-that-shell-out-to-system.patch) at 2025-11-03 17:04:28 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v8-0001-Adds-a-helper-for-places-that-shell-out-to-system.patch) at 2025-04-13 19:30:46 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v7-0001-Adds-a-helper-for-places-that-shell-out-to-system.patch) at 2025-03-17 23:08:03 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v6-0001-Adds-a-helper-for-places-that-shell-out-to-system.patch) at 2025-02-24 11:01:05 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v5-0001-Adds-a-helper-for-places-that-shell-out-to-system.patch) at 2025-02-24 10:58:53 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v4-0001-Adds-a-helper-for-places-that-shell-out-to-system.patch) at 2025-02-24 09:56:23 from "Jelte Fennema-Nio" <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v3-0003-Reflect-the-value-of-max_safe_fds-in-max_files_pe.patch) at 2025-02-17 20:25:33 from Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v2-0001-Bump-pgbench-soft-open-file-limit-RLIMIT_NOFILE-t.patch) at 2025-02-12 21:52:52 from Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
    Attachment (v1-0001-Bump-soft-open-file-limit-RLIMIT_NOFILE-to-hard-l.patch) at 2025-02-11 18:52:34 from Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres at jeltef.nl> (Patch: Yes)
History
When Who What
2025-12-01 23:57:57 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Moved from CF PG19-3 to CF PG19-4
2025-11-15 02:02:27 CFbot Patch needs rebase
2025-11-10 21:13:56 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) New status: Needs review
2025-10-29 10:12:11 Peter Eisentraut (petere) New status: Waiting on Author
2025-10-29 10:12:07 Peter Eisentraut (petere) Added petere as reviewer
2025-10-15 17:31:54 Peter Eisentraut (petere) Changed tags to Multithreading
2025-10-01 17:30:40 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Moved from CF PG19-2 to CF PG19-3
2025-08-01 22:24:07 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Moved from CF PG19-1 to CF PG19-2
2025-07-10 13:26:59 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Changed targetversion to None
2025-04-13 21:29:40 CFbot Patch does not need rebase anymore
2025-04-13 20:51:00 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) New status: Needs review
2025-04-13 20:50:17 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Closed in commitfest 2025-03 with status: Moved to next CF
2025-04-01 06:52:09 vigneshwaran C (vignesh.postgres) New status: Waiting on Author
2025-03-26 15:04:37 CFbot Patch needs rebase
2025-03-17 23:32:46 CFbot Patch does not need rebase anymore
2025-03-17 22:35:49 CFbot Patch needs rebase
2025-02-24 10:02:44 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) New status: Needs review
2025-02-24 10:01:43 CFbot Patch does not need rebase anymore
2025-02-22 09:46:45 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) New status: Waiting on Author
2025-02-20 21:04:32 CFbot Patch needs rebase
2025-02-11 18:54:10 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Changed authors to Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef)
2025-02-11 18:54:10 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Changed targetversion to 18
2025-02-11 18:53:55 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Attached mail thread CAGECzQQh6VSy3KG4pN1d=h9J=D1rStFCMR+t7yh_Kwj-g87aLQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-02-11 18:53:55 Jelte Fennema-Nio (jeltef) Created patch record
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