Re: performance config help

Bob Dusek wrote:
>>> The problem with our "cheap" connection pool is that the persistent
>>> connections don't seem to be available immediately after they're
>>> released by the previous process. pg_close doesn't seem to help the
>>> situation. We understand that pg_close doesn't really close a
>>> persistent connection, but we were hoping that it would cleanly
>>> release it for another client to use. Curious.
>> Yeah, the persistent connects in php are kinda as dangerous as they
>> are useful.. Have you tried using regular connects just to compare
>> performance? On Linux they're not too bad, but on Windows (the pg
>> server that is) it's pretty horrible performance-wise.
>
> Yes we have. Regular connections are pretty slow, even when our
> application server is on the same box as the db server.
>
>>> We've also tried third-party connection pools and they don't seem to
>>> be real fast.
>> What have you tried? Would pgbouncer work for you?
>
> We've tried pgbouncer. It's pretty good.

Oh, also look into mod_dbd . With the threaded MPM it can apparently
provide excellent in-apache connection pooling.

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Craig Ringer