"Menno Smits" <menno(at)netboxblue(dot)com> writes:
> The postmaster process doesn't close open file handles/sockets when it
> daemonises. This means it inherits all open file handles that the parent
> process had. This can lead to strange side effects because postgres will
> hold sockets and files that it really shouldn't.
I think this is a bug in whatever you are using to launch the
postmaster, not a bug in the postmaster.
regards, tom lane