Re: pgbench could not send data to client: Broken pipe

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 03:44:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
- Greg Smith <greg@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.

Yeah, that might be beyond me =)

Dave