Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Vick Khera wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane<greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
> > A server crash is a pretty rare event in the Postgres world, so I
> > would not spend too many cycles on this...
>
> I had one the other day caused by server resource issues: I ran out of
> file descriptors when I had a very large surge in activity.  Pg
> rightfully panicked and disconnected all my clients.

PG is not supposed to crash when it runs out of file descriptors.  In
fact there's a whole abstraction layer to ensure this does not happen.
What you saw was either misconfiguration or a bug somewhere (for example
maybe you have untrusted functions that try to open files?)

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