From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:45:19 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: doc:  clarify new behavior of max_files_per_process
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doc:  clarify new behavior of max_files_per_process
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 14661ac2cc6..007f1fbe006 100644
--- 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
-        in postmaster. The default is one thousand files.
+        allowed to open simultaneously;  files opened by the postmaster are
+        not counted toward this limit. The default is one thousand files.
        </para>
        <para>
         If the kernel is enforcing