Re: Not Enough Connections

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lonni J Friedman <lfriedman(at)vasoftware(dot)com>
Cc: Hunter Hillegas <lists(at)lastonepicked(dot)com>, PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Not Enough Connections
Date: 2003-03-10 20:27:54
Message-ID: 19767.1047328074@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Lonni J Friedman <lfriedman(at)vasoftware(dot)com> writes:
> I read somewhere a while ago that the upper value of max_connections is
> hardcoded at compile time, and that it can only be reduced via the
> configuration file. Is this true, or did i misunderstand?

You misunderstood.

There once was a compile-time upper limit on max_connections, but that
vanished quite some time ago; and even back then it was substantially
larger than most people used.

regards, tom lane

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