From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Hardwired MAXBACKENDS limit could be history |
Date: | 2001-01-26 16:28:22 |
Message-ID: | 29868.980526502@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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It would require only very minor changes in the main backend code to
eliminate entirely the hard-wired upper bound MAXBACKENDS. This would
be nice since there'd never be any need to recompile in order to
increase the soft limit MaxBackends (-N). However I see that the
SysV-semaphore emulation code used by the QNX and Darwin ports still
makes use of MAXBACKENDS to size some arrays. I don't especially want
to touch that code, since I am in no position to test it. Perhaps
someone who uses QNX and/or Darwin would like to tweak the sema code
to not depend on a compile-time-constant MAXBACKENDS?
I'm not thinking about getting this done in time for 7.1, but I think
it'd be a nice cleanup for 7.2.
Bruce, a TODO item please:
* Remove compile-time upper limit on number of backends (MAXBACKENDS)
regards, tom lane
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