Re: Scalability in postgres

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: Flavio Henrique Araque Gurgel <flavio(at)4linux(dot)com(dot)br>, Fabrix <fabrixio1(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Scalability in postgres
Date: 2009-05-29 10:45:02
Message-ID: 2f4958ff0905290345p56625f6fsef719f134559a7a0@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:

>  The PostgreSQL connection handler is known to be bad at handling high
> connection loads compared to the popular pooling projects, so you really
> shouldn't throw this problem at it. While kernel problems stack on top of
> that, you really shouldn't start at kernel fixes; nail the really
> fundamental and obvious problem first.

if it is implemented somewhere else better, shouldn't that make it
obvious that postgresql should solve it internally ? It is really
annoying to hear all the time that you should add additional path of
execution to already complex stack, and rely on more code to handle
something (poolers).

--
GJ

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