problem during postgres restore: max_connections = 100 is a lower setting than on the primary server, where its value was 350 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

I got this error from restoring a backup on a recovery machine.
I got error about the max_connections that I changed from 350 to 100.
in the control file the value is 350
/usr/pgsql-17/bin/pg_controldata -D /pgdata/pgsql/17/main/ | grep max_conn
max_connections setting:              350

That is the value registered from the primary. But the primary is not intended to be connected during this restore.
primary_conninfo is desactivated.

Is there a trick to change decrease this value and start the instance.

Thanks for your help

Fabrice

2026-03-02 11:14:30.353 CET [1620147]: [3-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 17.7 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 11.5.0 20240719 (Red Hat 11.5.0-11), 64-bit              
2026-03-02 11:14:30.354 CET [1620147]: [4-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port 5432                                                                                  
2026-03-02 11:14:30.354 CET [1620147]: [5-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432                                                                                      
2026-03-02 11:14:30.355 CET [1620147]: [6-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"                                                                        
2026-03-02 11:14:30.357 CET [1620147]: [7-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"                                                                                  
2026-03-02 11:14:30.362 CET [1620154]: [1-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  database system was interrupted; last known up at 2026-02-25 18:00:01 CET                                                      
2026-03-02 11:14:30.362 CET [1620154]: [2-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  creating missing WAL directory "pg_wal/summaries"                                                                              
ERROR: The required file is not available: 0000000A.history
2026-03-02 11:14:31.415 CET [1620154]: [3-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  starting backup recovery with redo LSN 3FB0/D9000028, checkpoint LSN 3FB0/D9010058, on timeline ID 9                            
2026-03-02 11:14:32.013 CET [1620154]: [4-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  restored log file "00000009.history" from archive                                                                              
2026-03-02 11:14:32.748 CET [1620154]: [5-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  restored log file "0000000900003FB0000000D9" from archive                                                                      
2026-03-02 11:14:32.749 CET [1620154]: [6-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  starting point-in-time recovery to 2026-03-02 09:00:00+01                                                                      
2026-03-02 11:14:32.760 CET [1620154]: [7-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  recovered replication state of node 1 to 3FB0/D8D74100                                                                          
2026-03-02 11:14:32.761 CET [1620154]: [8-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  recovered replication state of node 2 to 3FB0/BB7C1518                                                                          
2026-03-02 11:14:32.761 CET [1620154]: [9-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  recovered replication state of node 3 to 3CBD/DDE26700                                                                          
2026-03-02 11:14:32.761 CET [1620154]: [10-1] user=,db=,client=,application= FATAL:  recovery aborted because of insufficient parameter settings                                                                  
2026-03-02 11:14:32.761 CET [1620154]: [11-1] user=,db=,client=,application= DETAIL:  max_connections = 100 is a lower setting than on the primary server, where its value was 350.                              
2026-03-02 11:14:32.761 CET [1620154]: [12-1] user=,db=,client=,application= HINT:  You can restart the server after making the necessary configuration changes.                                                  
2026-03-02 11:14:32.762 CET [1620147]: [8-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  startup process (PID 1620154) exited with exit code 1                                                                          
2026-03-02 11:14:32.763 CET [1620147]: [9-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure                                                                                
2026-03-02 11:14:32.763 CET [1620147]: [10-1] user=,db=,client=,application= LOG:  database system is shut down