Re: 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:22:11 +0200
Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> > Maybe we should put an #ifdef WIN32 into guc.c to limit
> > max_connections to something we know the platform can stand? It'd
> > be more comfortable if we understood exactly where the limit was,
> > but I think I'd rather have an "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"
> > than random-seeming crashes.
>
> Yeayh, that's probably a good idea - except we never managed to
> figure out where the limit is. It appears to vary pretty wildly
> between different machines, for reasons we don't really know why
> (total RAM has some effect on it, but that's not the only one, for
> example)

How about we just emit a warning..

WARNING: Connections above 250 on Windows platforms may have
unpredictable results.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> //Magnus
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