Re: HaveNFreeProcs ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: HaveNFreeProcs ?
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Msg-id 20050624153308.GP89438@decibel.org
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In response to Re: HaveNFreeProcs ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:44:25AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > ... because it's written to not loop more than
> > superuser_reserved_connections times, and it's hard to imagine anyone
> > would set that to more than half a dozen or so.
> 
> We could help keep people on the correct path if guc.c enforced a sane
> upper limit on superuser_reserved_connections.  I'm thinking somewhere
> around 10.
> 
> Any thoughts about that?

Maybe a warning in the docs and the sample/default config file would be
better. It seems silly to limit this just because it might cause a
performance problem (this is just a performance issue, right?)
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