Re: Cannot restart postgresql when increasing max_connections

From: "Gregory Williamson" <Gregory(dot)Williamson(at)digitalglobe(dot)com>
To: <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Thom Brown" <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, "Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cannot restart postgresql when increasing max_connections
Date: 2009-01-08 20:07:14
Message-ID: 8B319E5A30FF4A48BE7EEAAF609DB233021F3968@COMAIL01.digitalglobe.com
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Joshua D. Drake spaketh:

> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 12:51 -0700, Gregory Williamson wrote:
> > Thom Brown wrote:
> > <...>
> > > 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.
<...>
> > 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.
>
> Not to disparage pgPool, but we have also had great results with
> pgBouncer.

I should have mentioned we quit while we ahead and never tried pgBouncer,
which may be a better solution. (didn't meant to cast any mud!)

And I realized belatedly that we use pgPool, a much simpler beast. We have
looked at pgPool II but haven't implemented it.

G

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