Re: Connection Pool

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt(at)abpni(dot)co(dot)uk>, "List, Postgres" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Connection Pool
Date: 2010-11-02 07:53:09
Message-ID: 4CCFC365.1080203@postnewspapers.com.au
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On 11/02/2010 01:42 AM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:

> I would like my application to try and get a connection from the pool,
> and if there are none free, wait until either one is free or time is up.

Rather than rolling your own connection pool, consider using one of the
well-established existing ones like DBCP. Alternately, you can use the
pooling DataSource offered by the PostgreSQL driver, though it's pretty
minimal as well.

http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/

Alternately you could use server-side pooling with PgPool-II.

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Craig Ringer

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