Re: max_files_per_process ignored on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: max_files_per_process ignored on Windows
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Msg-id 9225.1332986565@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: max_files_per_process ignored on Windows  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 18:12, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> An obvious fix would be to call set_max_safe_fds() in the child processes,
>> although I wonder if that's too expensive. Another option is to pass down
>> the value with save_restore_backend_variables().

> ISTM that passing down through save_restore_backend_variables() is a
> much better choice.

+1.  Having multiple children running set_max_safe_fds() concurrently
would be a seriously bad idea.
        regards, tom lane


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