Chad Robinson <taskswap(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I'm not sure I can use Postgres though. I'm having a terrible time getting
> large numbers of clients connected. I need to have upwards of 8000 clients
> attached at any one time.
Unless you actually need 8000 simultaneous transactions in process,
connection pooling is the way to go. I haven't played much with pgpool
though --- it may have a few issues to shake out ...
regards, tom lane