Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > I wonder how this works right now. Is there something that limits the > number of authentication requests that can be in flight concurrently, > or is it completely uncapped (except by machine resources)?
The former. IIRC, the postmaster won't spawn more than 2X max_connections subprocesses (don't recall the exact limit, but it's around there). regards, tom lane