Vick Khera <vi...@khera.org> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Alvaro
> Herrera<alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> PG is not supposed to crash when it runs out of file descriptors.  In
>> fact there's a whole abstraction layer to ensure this does not happen.

> From my syslog:
> Aug 21 15:11:13 d01 postgres[12037]: [156-1] PANIC:  could not open
> file "pg_xlog/00000001000013E300000014" (log file 5091, segment 20):
> Too many open files in system

This is probably coming from walwriter, which might not have very much
of a cushion of "extra" open files to close.

                        regards, tom lane

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