You need to increase the postmaster's limit on how many
concurrent backend processes it can start.
-
In PostgreSQL 6.5 and up, the default limit is 32 processes. You
- can increase it by restarting the postmaster with a suitable
- -N value. With the default configuration you can set
- -N as large as 1024. If you need more, increase
- MAXBACKENDS in include/pg_config.h and rebuild.
- You can set the default value of -N at configuration time,
- if you like, using configure's --with-maxbackends
- switch.
+
The default limit is 32 processes. You can increase it by
+ restarting the postmaster with a suitable -N value or
+ modifying postgresql.conf.
Note that if you make -N larger than 32, you must also
increase -B beyond its default of 64; -B must be at