Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > You probably should close any open file descriptors too, just to be > safe. (Or do we set FD_CLOEXEC on them?) We don't. It'd take an extra syscall per open(), which seems like rather a lot of overhead to deal with a case we aren't even trying to support. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general