Re: 100 simultaneous connections, critical limit?

Clinging to sanity, jonr(at)physicallink(dot)com (Jón Ragnarsson) mumbled into her beard:
> I am writing a website that will probably have some traffic.
> Right now I wrap every .php page in pg_connect() and pg_close().
> Then I read somewhere that Postgres only supports 100 simultaneous
> connections (default). Is that a limitation? Should I use some other
> method when writing code for high-traffic website?

I thought the out-of-the-box default was 32.

If you honestly need a LOT of connections, you can configure the
database to support more. I "upped the limit" on one system to have
512 the other week; certainly supportable, if you have the RAM for it.

It is, however, quite likely that the connect()/close() cuts down on
the efficiency of your application. If PHP supports some form of
"connection pooling," you should consider using that, as it will cut
down _dramatically_ on the amount of work done establishing/closing
connections, and should let your apps use somewhat fewer connections
more effectively.
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