Re: is max connections in a database table somewhere - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Geoffrey Myers
Subject Re: is max connections in a database table somewhere
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Msg-id 4E4437A7.50904@serioustechnology.com
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In response to Re: is max connections in a database table somewhere  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Greg Smith wrote:
> On 08/10/2011 02:46 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> Is the max connections value in a system table somewhere?
>
> If you intend to do anything with the value you probably want one of
> these forms:
>
> SELECT CAST(current_setting('max_connections') AS integer);
> SELECT CAST(setting AS integer) FROM pg_settings WHERE
> name='max_connections';
>
> The setting comes back as a text field when using current_setting on the
> pg_settings view (which isn't a real table, under the hood it's calling
> a system function)

Actually, just pulling it out of the database to display it in a report.


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