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From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Getting error "too many clients already" despite having a db connection limit set
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In response to Re: Getting error "too many clients already" despite having a db connection limit set  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2025, 10:21 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
On 6/16/25 09:29, adolfo flores wrote:
> Hello Team,
>
> I hope you can help me with an issue we're experiencing. We have an app
> running on Kubernetes that opens a huge number of connections within a
> couple of seconds.
>
> The database that the app connects to, is configured with a connection
> limit of 30% of the max_connections setting. Despite this limit being

I am not understanding the above. The connection limit from the database
side is going to be the value for max_connections. It is not clear to me
what "...  connection limit of 30% of the max_connections setting" is
referring to?

See "alter database ... set"

David J.


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