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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL - Last updated: Tue Sep 4 01:14:28 EDT 2001 + Last updated: Thu Sep 6 20:51:03 EDT 2001 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) @@ -557,12 +557,8 @@ You need to increase the postmaster's limit on how many concurrent backend processes it can start. - In PostgreSQL 6.5 and up, the default limit is 32 processes. You can - increase it by restarting the postmaster with a suitable -N value. - With the default configuration you can set -N as large as 1024. If you - need more, increase MAXBACKENDS in include/pg_config.h and rebuild. - You can set the default value of -N at configuration time, if you - like, using configure's --with-maxbackends switch. + The default limit is 32 processes. You can increase it by restarting + the postmaster with a suitable -N value or modifying postgresql.conf. Note that if you make -N larger than 32, you must also increase -B beyond its default of 64; -B must be at least twice -N, and probably |