Re: refusing connections based on load ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: refusing connections based on load ...
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Msg-id 24201.988069898@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to refusing connections based on load ...  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
Responses Re: refusing connections based on load ...  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
Re: refusing connections based on load ...  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> sendmail does it now, and, apparently relatively portable across OSs ...

sendmail expects to be root.  It's unlikely (and very undesirable) that
postgres will be installed with adequate privileges to read /dev/kmem,
which is what it'd take to run the sendmail loadaverage code on most
platforms...
        regards, tom lane


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