Increase MAXLISTEN to a more generous value, and add an error message

telling when it has been exceeded.  Per trouble report from
Jean-GÅrard Pailloncy.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c b/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
index 5609b0e2790..c3e25958022 100644
--- a/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
+++ b/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2005, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- *	$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c,v 1.174 2004/12/31 21:59:50 pgsql Exp $
+ *	$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c,v 1.175 2005/01/12 16:38:17 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -298,7 +298,9 @@ StreamServerPort(int family, char *hostName, unsigned short portNumber,
 		}
 		if (listen_index >= MaxListen)
 		{
-			/* Nothing found. */
+			ereport(LOG,
+					(errmsg("could not bind to all requested addresses: MAXLISTEN (%d) exceeded",
+							MaxListen)));
 			break;
 		}