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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-02-11T20:04:02Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I don't see a downside to just increasing the soft limit for
> pgbench.

Agreed, that end of the patch seems relatively harmless.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Redefine max_files_per_process to control additionally opened files

  2. pgbench: Increase RLIMIT_NOFILE if necessary

  3. Move extra code out of the Pre/PostRestoreCommand() section.