Re: Decrease MAX_BACKENDS to 2^16 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: Decrease MAX_BACKENDS to 2^16
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Msg-id 535C4F1B.5060502@nasby.net
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In response to Re: Decrease MAX_BACKENDS to 2^16  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 4/26/14, 1:27 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> I don't think we need to decide this without benchmarks proving the
> benefits. I basically want to know whether somebody has an actual
> usecase - even if I really, really, can't think of one - of setting
> max_connections even remotely that high. If there's something
> fundamental out there that'd make changing the limit impossible, doing
> benchmarks wouldn't be worthwile.

Stupid question... how many OSes would actually support 65k active processes, let alone 2^24?
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Jim C. Nasby, Data Architect                       jim@nasby.net
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