Re: Millisecond-precision connect_timeout for libpq

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, ivan babrou <ibobrik(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Millisecond-precision connect_timeout for libpq
Date: 2013-07-05 20:09:49
Message-ID: 51D7280D.2050705@commandprompt.com
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On 7/5/2013 1:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> If you are issuing a fresh connection for each sub-100ms query, you're
> doing it wrong anyway ...
> It's fairly common with certain kinds of apps, including Rails and PHP.
> This is one of the reasons why we've discussed having a kind of
> stripped-down version of pgbouncer built into Postgres as a connection
> manager. If it weren't valuable to be able to relocate pgbouncer to
> other hosts, I'd still say that was a good idea.

No kidding. I think a lot of -hackers forget that the web rules here and
the web is stateless, which means a huge performance loss for postgresql
unless we add yet another piece of software. Pre-forking here would
really help us.

JD

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