Re: FD_SETSIZE limitation in Windows hamstringing pgbench.c

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:11:47AM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
> 
> This change in pgbench.c:
> 
>   revision 1.71
>   date: 2007-08-25 10:21:14 +0100;  author: ishii;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -2;
>   The upper limit for -c option of pgbench is now obtained from
>   (FD_SETSIZE - 10) rather than a hardwired number.
> 
> Turns out to be, perhaps, ill-advised on Windows where FD_SETSIZE defaults to
> 64 but can be adjusted by #defining it before including winsock.h. At least
> that's what I'm reading on google, I don't know have a Windows machine to test
> with myself. But it's definitely true that on Windows you get an error if you
> try to run pgbench with more than 54 clients.
> 
> I think this can be solved by simply adding this:
> 
> --- pgbench.c    27 Sep 2007 21:39:43 +0100    1.72
> +++ pgbench.c    22 Oct 2007 10:55:57 +0100    
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #include <ctype.h>
>  
>  #ifdef WIN32
> +#define FD_SETSIZE 1024
>  #include <win32.h>
>  #else
>  #include <sys/time.h>
> 
> 
> But as I said, I can't test it conveniently. Plus Postgres currently is
> bombing out with more than 45 clients anyways due to the handles issue that
> others are looking into (hence finding this limitation).

Applied, except I added a #undef first so it doesn't produce a warning. I
can consistently run it with about 125 connections now (more than that and
it breaks on the other handle issue)

//Magnus