Re: Closing inactive connections OR user connections

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 18:36, Neil Conway wrote:

> Heh, no where at the moment, as there wasn't isn't any documentation
> on this new feature :-) Attached is a patch that adds some (also sent
> to -patches).

...
> +       <term><varname>SUPERUSER_RESERVED_CONNECTIONS</varname>
...
> +         Determines the number of <quote>connection slots</quote> that
> +         are reserved for connections by the <productname>PostgreSQL</>
> +         superuser. The maximum number of concurrent connections that
> +         can be made from any user account is
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                             all user accounts together

> +         <varname>max_connections</> minus
> +         <varname>superuser_reserved_connections</varname>; beyond that
> +         point, any additional connections from non-superuser accounts
> +         are refused.
> +        </para>
> +
> +        <para>
> +         The default value is 2. This must be at least as large as the
> +         value of <varname>max_connections</varname>. This parameter

At least as large?  Surely not?  You are saying:

 SUPERUSER_RESERVED_CONNECTIONS >= MAX_CONNECTIONS

and

 max_user_connections =
       MAX_CONNECTIONS - SUPERUSER_RESERVED_CONNECTIONS

Therefore max_user_connections <= 0

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