On Sun, 5 Apr 2026 at 01:18, Tomas Vondra <[email protected]> wrote: > This reminds me the discussions in 2022 about having a global memory > limit, and in particular this PoC patch [1] with a MemoryPool doing > roughly what you're describing here (at least I think). > > [1] > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4fb99fb7-8a6a-2828-dd77-e2f1d75c7dd0%40enterprisedb.com
I think the ideas are quite different. I see in that patch you're raising an ERROR if the memory usage goes over some threshold. What I had in mind was adding lightweight opt-in infrastructure to allow code to quickly check how much memory is being consumed by a MemoryContext and all of its child contexts. David
