Re: Should we disable Solaris using Unix Domain Sockets in the

Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>

From: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-09-23T06:00:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Cool.

:)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes:
> 
> > Did anyone ever figure out why Solaris boxes had those random failures
> > during the regression tests?
> 
> It should be better now that listen() is being called with a larger
> number.  The basic problem is that Solaris actually honors the
> listen() backlog argument, and if more than that many Unix socket
> clients attempt to connect simultaneously, some are rejected
> immediately.
> 
> Ian

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