Re: Cannot restart postgresql when increasing max_connections

Thom Brown wrote:
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> I actually mentioned pgPool II to my boss earlier, and it's something we
> will have to seriously consider, but will have to do some research first.

We had an application ported from Informix which initially required 1000+ connections to handle peak load (one of 4 servers pushed by two application servers doing spatial queries).

Using pgPool means we have a max limit of 100 and have almost never gone near it -- usually we have 12-25 connections at once and load and throughput are higher than they were before.

Greg Williamson
Senior DBA
DigitalGlobe

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