"Christian Meunier" <vchris(at)club-internet(dot)fr> writes:
> FATAL 1: cannot open /usr/local/pgsql/data/global/1262: Too many open file=
> s in system
> FATAL 1: cannot open /usr/local/pgsql/data/global/1262: Too many open file=
> s in system
Looks like you need to increase the size of the kernel file table.
I forget which /proc file you need to set to do that in Linux, but
it's surely covered in the "kernel resources" part of our
Administrator's Guide.
regards, tom lane