Re: pgsql: doc: clarify new behavior of max_files_per_process

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:26:50AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 09:52:03AM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 2025-04-29 13:45:44 +0000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > doc:  clarify new behavior of max_files_per_process
> > 
> > I don't think this really is an improvement - if postmaster is called with a
> > bunch of files already opened, they aren't opened by postmaster, but still are
> > ignored...
> 
> Okay, I was more objecting to the text that wasn't clear;  it was:
> 
>         Sets the maximum number of open files each server subprocess is
>         allowed to open simultaneously, in addition to the files already
>         open in postmaster. The default is one thousand files.
> 
> The "in addition" wasn't clear to me.  I could read it as "adding" the
> postmaster file descriptors.  I changed it now to:
> 
>         Sets the maximum number of open files each server subprocess is
>         allowed to open simultaneously;  files opened in the postmaster are
>         not counted toward this limit. The default is one thousand files.

I ended up preserving your "already" too:

        Sets the maximum number of open files each server subprocess
        is allowed to open simultaneously;  files already opened in the
        postmaster are not counted toward this limit. The default is one
        thousand files.

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