RE: Connection Pooling...(Repost)...please do help..

From: "Clark, Joel" <jclark(at)lendingtree(dot)com>
To: "'Joseph Shraibman'" <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
Cc: "'sk(at)pobox(dot)com'" <sk(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: Connection Pooling...(Repost)...please do help..
Date: 2000-12-19 13:44:18
Message-ID: 69F195289743D411B428009027E293C40267105F@CLTEXCH1
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Yes, but the load of 200 concurrent fork()ed backends might be worse. :)

jc

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Shraibman [mailto:jks(at)selectacast(dot)net]
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Connection Pooling...(Repost)...please do
help..

"Clark, Joel" wrote:
>
> I haven't found PG to have much connection overhead, why would
open/closing
> a connection-per-query require server side connection pooling?

Each connection causes the backend to fork. With a heavy load you'll
feel the overhead of creating and closing so many connections.

--
Joseph Shraibman
jks(at)selectacast(dot)net
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