Re: Too-many-files errors on OS X

Tom Lane wrote:
> Confirmations on other platforms please, anyone?
> 
> For anyone else who has problems getting it to compile, try copying 
> the relevant version of pg_dlopen from src/backend/port/dynloader/. I
> attach the code I actually ran on HPUX.

FWIW:

RH9
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# ./eatallfds libperl.so libR.so libtcl.so
dup() failed: Too many open files
Was able to use 1021 file descriptors
dup() failed: Too many open files
Was able to use 1021 file descriptors after opening 3 shared libs

Fedora
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# ./eatallfds libR.so libtcl.so libperl.so
dup() failed: Too many open files
Was able to use 1021 file descriptors
dup() failed: Too many open files
Was able to use 1021 file descriptors after opening 3 shared libs

Joe