Re: BUG #4978: "too many private dirs demanded" error during postgres startup

Jinson Abraham escribió:

> I am trying to start postgres 8.3.7 service on RHEL 5.3 but am seeing the
> following error in the pgstartup.log file under /var/lib/pgsql
>
> FATAL:  too many private dirs demanded

Huh, this sounds like operating system misconfiguration.  How many files
can a process open?

FWIW I have never seen this error (it comes from AllocateDir).

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