RE: [HACKERS] File descriptor leakage?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: root(at)sunpine(dot)krs(dot)ru [mailto:root(at)sunpine(dot)krs(dot)ru]On Behalf Of Vadim
> Mikheev
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 1:18 AM
> To: Tom Lane
> Cc: Cyrus Rahman; Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] File descriptor leakage?
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > Interestingly, this isn't a big problem on platforms where there is
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > a relatively low limit on number of open files per process. A backend
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > will run its open file count up to the limit and then stay there

It's not a small problem on platforms such as cygwin, OS2 where we
couldn't unlink open files. We have to close useless file descriptors
ASAP there.

6.5.2-release should be stable as possible.
So I don't object to the riskless way as Vadim mentioned.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp