| From: | "Clark, Joel" <jclark(at)lendingtree(dot)com> | 
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| 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
Increase signal to noise ratio.  http://www.targabot.com
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