Re: Thousands of errors...what happened?

On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Sergey Konoplev <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Jerry Levan <jerry(dot)levan(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> ERROR: could not seek to end of file "global/12292": Too many open files
>> LOG: out of file descriptors: Too many open files; release and retry
> [...]
>> Any idea what the problem could have been?
>
> Well, it tells for itself. It is out of file descriptors. Assuming you
> are on Linux, the ways to fix it (to increase the limit) are described
> by the link [1]. Chose one that suits you better.

This is on the latest MacOSX and generally I have very few apps open.

This is the first time this has happened in over fourteen years of using
Postgresql.

Jerry