Re: too many users for postgresql? :)

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:57:39AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > will trillich wrote:
> > > Warning: pg_connect() unable to connect to PostgreSQL
> > > server: FATAL 1: Sorry, too many clients already in
> > > /usr/local/www/www.postgresql.org/idocs/opendb.php on line 3
> > > Unable to access database

> This is one of the biggest advantages to the pooled model of
> AOLserver. If you have the number of connections to the
> database set equal to the number of connection threads, you
> can never get this sort of message. The webserver will refuse
> the connection first -- which is probably a better thing to
> do, rather than give such a damaging ('What? PostgreSQL can't
> scale to the load of its own server?') error message.

a MUCH better thing. :)

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