max_connections vs migrations

Nik and Michael discuss max_connections, especially in the context of increasing it to solve problems like migrations intermittently failing(!)
 
Here are some links to things they mentioned: 

• max_connections https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-connection.html#GUC-MAX-CONNECTIONS
• Tweet about deployments vs connections issue https://x.com/brankopetric00/status/1991394329886077090
• Nik tweet in response https://x.com/samokhvalov/status/1991465573684027443
• Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres (blog post by Andres Freund) https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2020/10/08/analyzing-connection-scalability/
• Exponential Backoff And Jitter (blog post by Marc Brooker) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/exponential-backoff-and-jitter/

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