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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Jinson Abraham <abraham(dot)jinson(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #4978: "too many private dirs demanded" error during postgres startup
Date: 2009-08-12 15:27:48
Message-ID: 20090812152748.GG5721@alvh.no-ip.org
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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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