Re: Closing inactive connections OR user connections

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 18:36, Neil Conway wrote:

> Heh, no where at the moment, as there wasn't isn't any documentation
> on this new feature :-) Attached is a patch that adds some (also sent
> to -patches).

...
> + <term><varname>SUPERUSER_RESERVED_CONNECTIONS</varname>
...
> + Determines the number of <quote>connection slots</quote> that
> + are reserved for connections by the <productname>PostgreSQL</>
> + superuser. The maximum number of concurrent connections that
> + can be made from any user account is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
all user accounts together

> + <varname>max_connections</> minus
> + <varname>superuser_reserved_connections</varname>; beyond that
> + point, any additional connections from non-superuser accounts
> + are refused.
> + </para>
> +
> + <para>
> + The default value is 2. This must be at least as large as the
> + value of <varname>max_connections</varname>. This parameter

At least as large? Surely not? You are saying:

SUPERUSER_RESERVED_CONNECTIONS >= MAX_CONNECTIONS

and

max_user_connections =
MAX_CONNECTIONS - SUPERUSER_RESERVED_CONNECTIONS

Therefore max_user_connections <= 0

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