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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL

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Last updated: Thu Sep 6 20:45:54 EDT 2001

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Last updated: Thu Sep 6 20:51:03 EDT 2001

Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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You need to increase the postmaster's limit on how many concurrent backend processes it can start.

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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.

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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