Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> So I think you could get above the FD_SETSIZE limit with a bit of
>> hacking if you were using 9.0's pgbench.  No chance with 8.3 though.

> I believe David can do this easily enough by compiling a 9.0 source code 
> tree with the "--disable-thread-safety" option.

It would take a bit more work than that, because the code still tries to
limit the client count based on FD_SETSIZE.  He'd need to hack it so
that in non-thread mode, the limit is FD_SETSIZE per subprocess.  I was
suggesting that an official patch to that effect would be a good thing.

> It's kind of futile to run pgbench simulating much more than a hundred 
> or two clients before 9.0 anyway.

Yeah ...

                        regards, tom lane

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