Re: Connection rejected: could not fork new process for connection: Unknown error

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: samcoffey <samcoffey82(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Connection rejected: could not fork new process for connection: Unknown error
Date: 2014-02-21 17:13:24
Message-ID: 3818.1393002804@sss.pgh.pa.us
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samcoffey <samcoffey82(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The above error occurs approx 2 out of 3 times when attempting to connect to
> server/database from pgadmin3 or eclipse.

What platform is this? Does any additional information appear in the
postmaster log?

At face value, this indicates you've got a heavily overloaded server
machine, but perhaps something else is going on.

regards, tom lane

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