Re: pg_pconnect - ??

I usually have a page which connects, does some processing and
disconnects - very simple stuff. The user runs a number of queries
when she creates some invoicing, but it's always a matter of "1. load
page where to enter parameters; 2. execute the script which creates
the bill from the parameters; 3. return to step 1". Each invoice is
created individually - the user only has a few clients (big amounts
per bill, few bills).
The most traffic the user creates is when they change their rate
table, they might add 20 to 50 rates at per week. I could run that
stuff of an old 100 MHz Pentium with 16 MB RAM, if I had to and they
would probably not see and performance issues. However, some of the
bills they have process 500'000 line items at a time, this is where I
need the horsepower - but at that stage, the connection is already
made. The query runs across 4 tables and sometimes takes up to 4
minutes.

Best regards,
Chris

At 16:07 -0500 01/28/2002, Chadwick Rolfs wrote:
>Sorry, I guess you can disregard most of my reply:)
>
>But a functiont that checks for connections and makes on only if one isn't
>already there is still good idea, if you are making many queries in a
>small amount of time.
>
>Are you making many queries at once, or the same one many times, or
>different ones quickly?
>
>On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
>
>> Ok, so from what I see on here, pg_pconnect doesn't have any
>> advantages over pg_connect in my situation. I have the web server
>> running on the same machine as the database server and yes, I have
>> allocated 16384 shared buffers (at 8 KB each, this is 128 MB of
>> shared memory). I have not noticed any connect overhead when opening
>> a web page which connects to the database (99% of them do), the
>> connection is instantaneously, so I guess, I don't need to do
>> anything here.
>> I was under the impression, that a persistent connection would open
>> one and only one process which then will be used all the time without
>> creating more child processes which keep lingering about. I guess, I
>> was wrong here ...
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Chris
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