Re: Built-in connection pooling

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Built-in connection pooling
Date: 2018-04-18 13:09:50
Message-ID: CAMsr+YFponiat0e6LAh52JsGpgwec4OKXASK7aXGpDSs555Srw@mail.gmail.com
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On 18 April 2018 at 19:52, Konstantin Knizhnik
<k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:

> As far as I know most of DBMSes have some kind of internal connection
> pooling.
> Oracle, for example, you can create dedicated and non-dedicated backends.
> I wonder why we do not want to have something similar in Postgres.

I want to, and I know many others to.

But the entire PostgreSQL architecture makes it hard to do well, and
means it requires heavy changes to do it in a way that will be
maintainable and reliable.

Making it work, and making something maintainble and mergeable, are
two different things. Something I continue to struggle with myself.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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