Re: [HACKERS] Admin nice-to-have's

2002-08-16 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see a major problem with allowing postgres to login if the connection limit is hit (although I'm not sure it's worth the worry, when 'kill a backend executing SELECT ; psql template1 postgres' works as-is). max_connections is a hard limit; you do

Re: [HACKERS] Admin nice-to-have's

2002-08-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see a major problem with allowing postgres to login if the connection limit is hit (although I'm not sure it's worth the worry, when 'kill a backend executing SELECT ; psql template1 postgres' works as-is). max_connections

Re: [HACKERS] Admin nice-to-have's

2002-08-16 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: We could consider establishing a soft connection limit that's somewhat less than max_connections, and allowing non-superusers to log in only if the soft limit hasn't been exceeded. This does not guarantee that superusers can always get

Re: [HACKERS] Admin nice-to-have's

2002-08-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: We could consider establishing a soft connection limit that's somewhat less than max_connections, and allowing non-superusers to log in only if the soft limit hasn't been exceeded. This does not guarantee that

[HACKERS] Admin nice-to-have's

2002-08-15 Thread Scott Shattuck
A couple of admin nice-to-have's based on the last few weeks of 24x7 operation are: Allow DBA/Database Owner to log in even when max_connections has been reached so they can determine which queries are hung via pg_stat_activity etc. and perform any other needed work to restore stability. Log

Re: [HACKERS] Admin nice-to-have's

2002-08-15 Thread Neil Conway
Scott Shattuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Allow DBA/Database Owner to log in even when max_connections has been reached so they can determine which queries are hung via pg_stat_activity etc. and perform any other needed work to restore stability. Allowing the database owner to login seems

Re: [HACKERS] Admin nice-to-have's

2002-08-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
Neil Conway wrote: Scott Shattuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Allow DBA/Database Owner to log in even when max_connections has been reached so they can determine which queries are hung via pg_stat_activity etc. and perform any other needed work to restore stability. Allowing the