On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:17 +1300, Dru wrote: > Though one of hte developers > tells me that sometimes it gets a link resource allocation error on > opening connections to the database server which i dont know if that is > related.
I'm not sure what you mean by a "link resource allocation error". Can you provide the exact error message you get when a connection is refused? (Try checking the PostgreSQL logfile.) > Max connections is set to 500, the webpage for the server code > initalises and then closes the connection when its done. It might be worth considering connection pooling or persistent connections, although that shouldn't be related to the specific problem you're having. > Does pg_dumpall or pg_dump lock the database block access > to the database so you cant create connections? No. > Could it be possible > postgresql can only create one connection at a time and if it gets two > requests for a connection at the same time it fails? No. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster