Re: scaling up postgres

From: "Neil Saunders" <n(dot)j(dot)saunders(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: scaling up postgres
Date: 2006-06-03 15:35:54
Message-ID: ddcd549e0606030835t7236a060g65f4061ac935828@mail.gmail.com
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> As per PFC's comment, if connections/sec is a bottleneck for you then
the
> answer is to use persistent connections. Launching a new backend
is a fairly
> heavyweight operation in Postgres.
>

In which case maybe pgpool could help in this respect?
http://pgpool.projects.postgresql.org/

Cheers,

Neil.

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