On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:44:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: - Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: - > Tom Lane wrote: - >> So I think you could get above the FD_SETSIZE limit with a bit of - >> hacking if you were using 9.0's pgbench. No chance with 8.3 though. - - > I believe David can do this easily enough by compiling a 9.0 source code - > tree with the "--disable-thread-safety" option. - - It would take a bit more work than that, because the code still tries to - limit the client count based on FD_SETSIZE. He'd need to hack it so - that in non-thread mode, the limit is FD_SETSIZE per subprocess. I was - suggesting that an official patch to that effect would be a good thing. Yeah, that might be beyond me =) Dave -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance