Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> Doing this is not just what you call it. In a system with let's say 500
> active backends on a database with let's say 1000 things that are
> represented as a file, you'll need half a million virtual file descriptors.
[shrug] We've been dealing with virtual file descriptors for years.
I've seen no indication that they create any performance bottlenecks.
regards, tom lane