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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Misleading "epoll_create1 failed: Too many open files"
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:35:56 -0500
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Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes:
> I think it's rather confusing to claim that epoll_create1() failed when we
> didn't even call it.
> Why are we misattributing the failure to a system call that we didn't make?

I think the idea was that this mechanism is equivalent to an EMFILE
limit.  But if you feel a need to make a distinction, this seems fine:

>                 elog(ERROR, "AcquireExternalFD, for epoll_create1, failed: %m");

You should probably check all of 3d475515a, because I think
I applied the same idea in more than one place.

			regards, tom lane

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