You are referring to pgpool? BTW, thanks for this insight.
Yudhvir
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On 5/30/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> "Y Sidhu" <ysidhu(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > The question is: Is this method of repeatedly establishing and
> > re-establishing database connections with the same 3 tables efficient?
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> No. Launching a new backend process is a fairly expensive proposition;
> if you're striving for performance you don't want to do it for just one
> or two queries. Look into connection pooling ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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