Re: pgsql: doc: clarify new behavior of max_files_per_process

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:26:50AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 09:52:03AM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2025-04-29 13:45:44 +0000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > doc: clarify new behavior of max_files_per_process
> >
> > I don't think this really is an improvement - if postmaster is called with a
> > bunch of files already opened, they aren't opened by postmaster, but still are
> > ignored...
>
> Okay, I was more objecting to the text that wasn't clear; it was:
>
> Sets the maximum number of open files each server subprocess is
> allowed to open simultaneously, in addition to the files already
> open in postmaster. The default is one thousand files.
>
> The "in addition" wasn't clear to me. I could read it as "adding" the
> postmaster file descriptors. I changed it now to:
>
> Sets the maximum number of open files each server subprocess is
> allowed to open simultaneously; files opened in the postmaster are
> not counted toward this limit. The default is one thousand files.

I ended up preserving your "already" too:

Sets the maximum number of open files each server subprocess
is allowed to open simultaneously; files already opened in the
postmaster are not counted toward this limit. The default is one
thousand files.

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