Re: idle connection timeout ...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: idle connection timeout ...
Date: 2002-10-25 15:46:47
Message-ID: 2935.1035560807@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Basically, total connections is to be set larger than you think you will
> ever need, while you expect per-db to be hit, and if something keeps
> trying to connect and failing, we may get very bad connection
> performance for other backends.

Hmm, I see your point. A per-db limit *could* be useful even if it's
set high enough that you don't expect it to be hit ... but most likely
people would try to use it in a way that it wouldn't be very efficient
compared to a client-side solution.

regards, tom lane

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