On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 07:07:53PM -0400, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2025-03-18 18:53:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> It's probably time to just abandon the idea of being able to run with >> only 60 semaphores. > > Agreed. It's an absurdly outdated OS default configuration. Realistically one > can't run postgres even in a toy scenario without changing it. So the value of > being able to test postgres with the default OS settings doesn't seem that > high. If it were on a very commonly used platform I would think differently, > but net/openbsd ain't that.
+1. The platforms with low defaults do force us to think carefully about increasing the default requirements for Postgres, but I don't think that's a strong enough argument for the maintenance effort. -- nathan
