Re: superuser_reserved_connections and max_connections - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From John Scalia
Subject Re: superuser_reserved_connections and max_connections
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In response to superuser_reserved_connections and max_connections  (Travis Kirstine <tkirstine@firstbasesolutions.com>)
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Ummm.... YES, there are great (potential) differences between non-Superuser and Superuser connections and their abilities. Apparently when your users were created, someone added superuser abilities to each one. That is almost certainly an error. You may have users which should have read-only ability others who should have read-write, and far fewer with superuser. Check the web pages for GRANTS as to what each user can have. If you have lots of users and don't want to assign each  individually, then make a group role, give it the abilities you want, then assign your appropriate users to that group. Sounds like you need to read up on database security.
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Jay

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Travis Kirstine <tkirstine@firstbasesolutions.com> wrote:


We were getting a lot of "max connections reached" errors and noticed that all our users are super users, after some digging I found the 

superuser_reserved_connections parameter was not set (default to 3) this lead to some additional questions:


If all my users are  superusers are they effectively limited to the number of connections defined in the 

superuser_reserved_connections  parameter?


Is there any significant difference between a superuser and non-superuser connection?


Any additional insight would be great.


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