> Wanted to install pgbouncer, but it is broken currently in Debian. And
> why is it in contrib and not in main (speaking of Debian location)
Pgbouncer has worked very well for us. Wasn't available in default repos
for Ubuntu server when I did my original setup but installing from
source is quite easy. Running heavy load benchmarks on a web app
(high-rate simple-queries) I saw about a 10-fold improvement just by
using pgbouncer.
Cheers,
Steve