Can anyone tell me that if the max_connections is above 100, the server will use pooling instead?
For all participants in this particular dsicuss, what is the reasonable value for max_connections without causing any harm to the Postgres 9.0 server.
I am a nonvice Postgres user so any advice is always welcomed.
Thanks,
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There might be a very cheap and simple way to help reduce the number of people running into problems because they set massive max_connections values that their server cannot cope with instead of using pooling.
In the default postgresql.conf, change:
max_connections = 100 # (change requires restart)
# Note: Increasing max_connections costs ~400 bytes of shared memory
# per connection slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction).
to:
max_connections = 100 # (change requires restart)
# WARNING: If you're about to increase max_connections above 100, you
# should probably be using a connection pool instead. See:
# http://wiki.postgresql.org/max_connections
#
# Note: Increasing max_connections costs ~400 bytes of shared memory
# per connection slot, plus lock space (see max_locks_per_transaction).
#
... where wiki.postgresql.org/max_connections (which doesn't yet exist) explains the throughput costs of too many backends and the advantages of configuring a connection pool instead.
Sure, this somewhat contravenes the "users don't read - ever" principle, but we can hope that _some_ people will read a comment immediately beside the directive they're modifying.
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