Re: PostgreSQL under BSD/OS

> Thanks to some answers you gave me some time back, I've been doing some
> testing of PostgreSQL under BSD/OS-3.1 in preparation for a project that
> I'm working on. So far, it all seems to be working fine, apart from one
> (relatively minor) bug in psql -- it fails to close files it reads for a
> COPY command, meaning it can keep a multi-megabyte file open for days.
> The workaround is to do a new connect to the same database after the
> COPY, at which point the data file gets closed. Maybe you can get that
> fixed in a future release.

This is the first I have heard of this. The file commands/copy.c does
use a file descriptor cache, but that is really just used for allowing
more file opens that the OS permits. Actual opens and closes are
happending.

I assume the files you are talking about are the database table files.
Yes, they stay open because the backend may want to use them someday.

Is that a problem?

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