Re: is max connections in a database table somewhere

On 08/10/2011 02:46 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> Is the max connections value in a system table somewhere?

If you intend to do anything with the value you probably want one of
these forms:

SELECT CAST(current_setting('max_connections') AS integer);
SELECT CAST(setting AS integer) FROM pg_settings WHERE
name='max_connections';

The setting comes back as a text field when using current_setting on the
pg_settings view (which isn't a real table, under the hood it's calling
a system function)

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