Re: PostgresSQL 9.0 64 bit on windows 2008 64bit

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:50, Niklas Langvig
<niklas(dot)langvig(at)globesoft(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> We currently use postgres 8.3 on windows 2008 32bit
>
> With max_connections set to 1000

Wow. That's really not good for performance on Windows..

> Since we have more than 125 connections, we run postgres as a stand alone
> process instead of as a service.
>
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_&_Installing_PostgreSQL_On_Native_Windows#I_cannot_run_with_more_than_about_125_connections_at_once.2C_despite_having_capable_hardware
>
>
>
> Now when we are upgrading to Windows 2008 64bit running PostgreSQL 9 64 bit.
>
> Can we run it as a service even though we have max_connections set to 1000
> or do we have to run it as a stand alone process?

AFAIK, it should work, but I don't think anybody has done any kind of
benchmark to figure out where the limit is at now.

> Say that I would set max_connection to 5000 and then have 5000 postgres
> processes running on the server, is that wise?

No. And the same definitely goes for 1000. It works, but it's not wise.

> Must each connection have to start a new process?

Yes.

> I guess we should look at pgBouncer (actually we have looked at it but it’s
> not in use right now)

If you can use that, or application level connection pooling, you will
likely get much better performance.

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