Brian Hirt <bhirt(at)mobygames(dot)com> writes:
> I've run into this on my ibook too. The default number of files is
> set very low by default. On my system 10.3.2, it's 256 for the
> postgres user. You can raise it to something higher like 2048 with
> the ulimit command. i have ulimit -n unlimited in my .bash_profile
Hmm, I hadn't even thought about ulimit. I thought those settings were
per-process, not per-user. If they are per-user they could be
problematic.
regards, tom lane