Re: Postgresql problems - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Postgresql problems
Date
Msg-id 22757.1036688426@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Postgresql problems  (Lee Tuck <tuckkhai@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-general
Lee Tuck <tuckkhai@yahoo.com> writes:
> 1. Connection startup failed <fork failure> : Resource
> temporarily unavailable

You probably need to increase your system's limit on the number of
processes per userid.  Postgres has to be able to start a process
for each connection received.  Just increasing max_connections in
postgresql.conf won't work if the kernel is not configured to allow it...

            regards, tom lane

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