On 2020-Feb-24, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Then again, that would be akin to setrlimit() on Linux. Maybe we can > > consider that a separate GUC, in a separate patch, with a > > platform-specific default value that just corresponds to the OS's > > default, and the user can set to whatever suits them; then we call > > either _setmaxstdio() or setrlimit(). > > Why not just drive it off max_files_per_process? On Unix, that > largely exists to override the ulimit setting anyway. With no > comparable knob on a Windows system, we might as well just say > that's what you set. That makes sense to me -- but if we do that, then maybe we should be doing the setrlimit() dance on it too, on Linux^W^W where supported. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
