Re: Database connection for Tbl_B established

From: "Y Sidhu" <ysidhu(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Database connection for Tbl_B established
Date: 2007-05-30 23:36:50
Message-ID: b09064f30705301636m16f0f80x21bd4be924cc812e@mail.gmail.com
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You are referring to pgpool? BTW, thanks for this insight.

Yudhvir
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On 5/30/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Y Sidhu" <ysidhu(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > The question is: Is this method of repeatedly establishing and
> > re-establishing database connections with the same 3 tables efficient?
>
> No. Launching a new backend process is a fairly expensive proposition;
> if you're striving for performance you don't want to do it for just one
> or two queries. Look into connection pooling ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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