Re: [HACKERS] Re: Max backend limits cleaned up

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Max backend limits cleaned up
Date: 1999-02-22 17:51:17
Message-ID: 9938.919705877@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Yeah, I was thinking about that myself. I left the default -N setting
>> at 64 on the theory that people who had gone to the trouble of making
>> sure they had proper kernel configurations should not get surprised by
>> v6.5 suddenly reducing the default number-of-backends limit.

> The default was always 32, right, so they should not be suprised if they
> don't up the limit to 64.

No, the default MaxBackendId was 64 (unless that's been changed
recently?). A stock installation of 6.4 will support 64 backends
assuming that you have adequate kernel settings for that.

regards, tom lane

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