>>A few days back the load increased on our database server to the point
>>where it could not get enough file handles. This causes the backends to
>>crash, get restarted only to crash again, on and on.
>>
>>We fixed it by bumping kern.maxfiles, but was just wondering if this is
>>a scenario that PostgreSQL should handle more gracefully?
>
> We certainly go great lengths to prevent this problem ... what version
> is this?
7.4.6
Chris