Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... The second part should not be > applied - I simply include it to illustrate the hack (taken from a > recent clue on the Cygwin mailing list) that I found necessary to get > around brokenness on the latest release of Cygwin. The good news is > that they do seem to be trying to find out what broke and fix it.
You mean this? > *** src/backend/storage/file/fd.c 4 Jul 2005 04:51:48 -0000 1.118 > --- src/backend/storage/file/fd.c 7 Aug 2005 13:22:00 -0000 > *************** > *** 327,332 **** > --- 327,334 ---- > elog(WARNING, "dup(0) failed after %d > successes: %m", used); > break; > } > + if (used >= 250) > + break; > > if (used >= size) > { Looking at that code, I wonder why we don't make the loop stop at max_files_per_process opened files --- the useful result will be bounded by that anyhow. Actively running the system out of FDs, even momentarily, doesn't seem like a friendly thing to do. This wouldn't directly solve your problem unless you reduced the default value of max_files_per_process, but at least that would be something reasonable to do instead of hacking the code. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings