Re: pgsql: Add kqueue(2) support to the WaitEventSet API.

On 2020-Feb-24, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:

> > Then again, that would be akin to setrlimit() on Linux. Maybe we can
> > consider that a separate GUC, in a separate patch, with a
> > platform-specific default value that just corresponds to the OS's
> > default, and the user can set to whatever suits them; then we call
> > either _setmaxstdio() or setrlimit().
>
> Why not just drive it off max_files_per_process? On Unix, that
> largely exists to override the ulimit setting anyway. With no
> comparable knob on a Windows system, we might as well just say
> that's what you set.

That makes sense to me -- but if we do that, then maybe we should be
doing the setrlimit() dance on it too, on Linux^W^W where supported.

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