Re: New server setup

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Niels Kristian Schjødt <nielskristian(at)autouncle(dot)com>, Craig James <cjames(at)emolecules(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New server setup
Date: 2013-03-05 16:34:04
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Niels Kristian Schjødt <nielskristian(at)autouncle(dot)com> wrote:

> So my question is, should I also get something like pgpool2 setup
> at the same time? Is it, from your experience, likely to increase
> my throughput a lot more, if I had a connection pool of eg. 20
> connections, instead of 300 concurrent ones directly?

In my experience, it can make a big difference.  If you are just
using the pooler for this reason, and don't need any of the other
features of pgpool, I suggest pgbouncer.  It is a simpler, more
lightweight tool.

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Kevin Grittner
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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