> OK, that'd work too... the point is if you're re-connecting
> all the time it doesn't really matter what else you do for
> performance.
Yeah, although there is the chap who was asking questions on the list
recently who had some very long-running code on his app servers, so was best
off closing the connection because he had far too many postmaster processes
just sitting there idle all the time!
But you're right, it's a killer usually.
M