RE: [HACKERS] File descriptor leakage?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: root@sunpine.krs.ru [mailto:root@sunpine.krs.ru]On Behalf Of Vadim
> Mikheev
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 1:18 AM
> To: Tom Lane
> Cc: Cyrus Rahman; Inoue@tpf.co.jp; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] File descriptor leakage?
>
> 
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > 
> > Interestingly, this isn't a big problem on platforms where there is
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > a relatively low limit on number of open files per process.  A backend
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > will run its open file count up to the limit and then stay there

It's not a small problem on platforms such as cygwin, OS2 where we
couldn't unlink open files.  We have to close useless file descriptors
ASAP there.

6.5.2-release should be stable as possible.
So I don't object to the riskless way as Vadim mentioned. 

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp