RE: too many clients - Error message

Depends on what you are using for clients.  For instance, many web
programming suites use "persistent connections."  Persistent connections
stay open in the hopes that the web server process will have need of them
again, and keeping them open will save  the time of reconnecting when that
occurs.  Only Apache with addons like mod_perl, Zope, or PHP will use
persistent connections.  In other clients, I would guess that the problem
is that the client isn't calling disconnect, either because it's idling, or
because the author forgot to code it in before the client exits.  I'm not
sure how long it takes PostGres to idle out a backend process, or if it
ever will.


At 07:31 AM 4/26/00, Joseph wrote:
>Thanks for the response.
>
>Why do the connections seem to build up?
>How do you clear them?
>Should not the client close the connection when finished?
>Or see how many are out there?
>
> >The maximum number of backends that the PostGres postmaster will start is
> >32.  If you want more, you have to specify the maximum on the command line
> >with the -N option. IE, you can start postgres like this to allow internet
> >connections, have it fork into the background, and allow 100 simultaneous
> >connections:
>
> >/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -B 256 -S -N 100
> >
> >>At 07:16 AM 4/22/00, Joseph wrote:
> >>
> >>How do you solve this error message?
> >>
> >>Connection to database 'template1' failed.
> >>Sorry, too many clients already
>
>
>
>Joseph