Re: Re: SOMAXCONN (was Re: Solaris source code) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Don't we have maxbackends configurable at runtime.
> 
> Not after postmaster start, so passing it to the initial listen()
> shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> The other concern I had could be addressed by making the listen
> parameter be MIN(MaxBackends, PG_SOMAXCONN) where PG_SOMAXCONN
> is set in config.h --- but now we could make the default value
> really large, say 10000.  The only reason to change it would be
> if you had a kernel that barfed on large listen() parameters.

Sounds good to me.

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