Re: increasing database connections

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Shiva Sarna" <shivasarna(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: increasing database connections
Date: 2007-03-01 05:49:14
Message-ID: 36e682920702282149y3529b175ob5814e3f957aec15@mail.gmail.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-performance

On 3/1/07, Shiva Sarna <shivasarna(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in> wrote:
> I am sorry if it is a repeat question but I want to know if database
> performance will decrease if I increase the max-connections to 2000. At
> present it is 100.

Most certainly. Adding connections over 200 will degrade performance
dramatically. You should look into pgpool or connection pooling from
the application.

--
Jonah H. Harris, Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1324
EnterpriseDB Corporation | fax: 732.331.1301
33 Wood Ave S, 3rd Floor | jharris(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
Iselin, New Jersey 08830 | http://www.enterprisedb.com/

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-performance by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Joshua D. Drake 2007-03-01 06:18:18 Re: increasing database connections
Previous Message Shiva Sarna 2007-03-01 05:18:59 increasing database connections