Re: Pooling with npgsql does not seem to work

Kontakt David G. Johnston (<david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>) kirjutas kuupäeval
K, 14. oktoober 2020 kell 20:07:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 8:49 AM Raul Kaubi <raulkaubi(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Actually, I tried both settings
>> MinPoolSize
>> Minimum Pool Size
>>
>> Same for max.
>> Seems like both are supported. In addition to that, when I deliberately
>> made typo there, the application just won’t start at all.
>>
>> So seems like these both are fine, since application does indeed start
>> with these, just I do not see theses 17 processes anywhere..
>>
>
> The npgsql project has its own support channels, this question doesn't
> meet the point of this mailing list nor the PostgreSQL server lists
> generally, but I was curious and took a look around their documentation
> (not helpful) and code. I don't see where the driver, upon initial
> connection with a pool, forces open a number of connections equal to the
> minimum specified. The minimum behaves such that once exceeded the number
> of open connections will then not decrease below that number. It doesn't
> proactively open connections to obtain the minimum - not an unreasonable
> choice.
>
> David J.
>
>
Oh, yeah, it makes sense - this looks like is working as intended then.
Thanks.

Raul