> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane writes:
> >> Right. Okay, it seems like just making it a hand-configurable entry
> >> in config.h.in is good enough for now. When and if we find that
> >> that's inadequate in a real-world situation, we can improve on it...
>
> > Would anything computed from the maximum number of allowed connections
> > make sense?
>
> [ looks at code ... ] Hmm, MaxBackends is indeed set before we arrive
> at the listen(), so it'd be possible to use MaxBackends to compute the
> parameter. Offhand I would think that MaxBackends or at most
> 2*MaxBackends would be a reasonable value.
Don't we have maxbackends configurable at runtime. If so, any constant
we put in config.h will be inaccurate. Seems we have to track
maxbackends.
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