Alban Hertroys wrote:
> The reason I'm asking is that Postgres doesn't perform at its best on Windows and I seriously wonder whether the OS would be able to handle a load like that at all (can Windows handle 4000 open sockets for example?).
You have to go out of your way to even get >125 connections going on
Windows; see the very last entry at
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_%26_Installing_PostgreSQL_On_Native_Windows
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