Re: Proposed patch: remove hard-coded limit MAX_ALLOCATED_DESCS

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Recently we had a gripe about how you can't read very many files
> concurrently with contrib/file_fdw:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/OF419B5767.8A3C9ADB-ON85257B79.005491E9-85257B79.0054F6F1@isn.rtss.qc.ca

Ouch, that's pretty bad.

> Barring objections or better ideas, I'd like to back-patch this as far
> as 9.1 where file_fdw was introduced.

+1.  This would bump the limit to something like 300 instead of 10,
right?  That seems pretty reasonable.
Thanks,
    Stephen