From 9a9e60fed39268bb85b59dde3cdb0b0166c85cc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:45:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] doc:  clarify new behavior of max_files_per_process

---
 doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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