Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Perhaps we could extend pg_regress to allow "--max-connections=auto"
> which would instruct it to set its connection limit to the server's
> actual max_connections minus superuser reserved slots (and probably
> minus a couple more to allow for backend shutdown time etc). Then the
> buildfarm could use that, while we'd leave the behavior alone for normal
> manual regression tests.
>
>
This seems needlessly complex. We can tolerate occasional intermittent
failures on buildfarm, and if they are persistent there is already a
configurable rate limiting mechanism available.
cheers
andrew
