From: | Kieren Scott <kierenscott(at)hotmail(dot)com> |
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To: | <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pgBouncer for connection pooling |
Date: | 2010-08-23 19:55:55 |
Message-ID: | BAY149-w21FDC1446BAEB2B930A150AE820@phx.gbl |
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Many thanks.
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pgBouncer for connection pooling
> From: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
> To: kierenscott(at)hotmail(dot)com
> CC: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:02:31 -0700
>
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 14:38 +0000, Kieren Scott wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a web-based application (drupal) which uses PHP to make
> > connections to a back-end postgresql 8.3 server. The application and
> > database are on separate servers, but as we can get 20+ concurrent
> > connections on the database I've looked at pgBouncer to try and reduce
> > the overhead of new connections on the database. I currently have
> > pgBouncer running on the same server as my postgres database but I was
> > wondering whether this is a recommended setup - are the performance
> > benefits of using a connection pooler overshadowed by the overhead of
> > running pgBouncer on the same server as the database?
> >
> > How are other people using pgBouncer? E.g. on a separate server from
> > the database etc...?
>
> We use it in both on separate boxes as well as local. As long as your
> machine is handling the connection processing of the pooler fine, I
> wouldn't worry about it. There are some specific high end off machine
> things you can do (point at different databases on different machines
> from a single pooler) that is cool but for just a Drupal website it is
> probably not required.
>
> JD
>
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