doc: clarify new behavior of max_files_per_process

8 months ago · 9a9e60fed3
parent 913c60b067
commit 9a9e60fed3
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@ -2417,8 +2417,8 @@ include_dir 'conf.d'
      <listitem>
       <para>
        Sets the maximum number of open files each server subprocess is
-        allowed to open simultaneously, in addition to the files already open
+        allowed to open simultaneously;  files opened by the postmaster are
-        in postmaster. The default is one thousand files.
+        not counted toward this limit. The default is one thousand files.
       </para>
       <para>
        If the kernel is enforcing