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From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: WAL segment file descriptor leak on read errors can PANIC the server
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In response to Re: WAL segment file descriptor leak on read errors can PANIC the server  (Alexandre Felipe <o.alexandre.felipe@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2026 at 10:59:16AM +0100, Alexandre Felipe wrote:
> BasicOpenFile() called repeatedly will accumulate stale descriptors
> indefinitely.

I don't really see a reason to care about this kind of complexity in
the scope of xlogreader.h: XLogReaderState.WALOpenSegment.ws_file is
the only fd that we need to track.
--
Michael
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