Ok, thanks for the clarification.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 11:37 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com> writes:
> > Just curious, *backlog* defines the maximum pending connections,
> > why do we need to double the MaxConnections as the queue size?
>
> The postmaster allows up to twice MaxConnections child processes
> to exist, per the comment in canAcceptConnections:
>
> * We allow more connections here than we can have backends because some
> * might still be authenticating; they might fail auth, or some existing
> * backend might exit before the auth cycle is completed. The exact
> * MaxBackends limit is enforced when a new backend tries to join the
> * shared-inval backend array.
>
> You can argue that 2X might not be the right multiplier, and you
> can argue that the optimal listen queue length might be more or
> less than the limit on number of child processes, but that's how
> we've historically done it. I'm not especially interested in
> changing that without somebody making a well-reasoned case for
> some other number.
>
> regards, tom lane
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Regards
Junwang Zhao
