Re: Cannot restart postgresql when increasing max_connections - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 12:51 -0700, Gregory Williamson wrote:
> Thom Brown wrote:
> <...>
> > I actually mentioned pgPool II to my boss earlier, and it's
> something we
> > will have to seriously consider, but will have to do some research
> first.
>
> We had an application ported from Informix which initially required
> 1000+ connections to handle peak load (one of 4 servers pushed by two
> application servers doing spatial queries).
>
> Using pgPool means we have a max limit of 100 and have almost never
> gone near it -- usually we have 12-25 connections at once and load and
> throughput are higher than they were before.

Not to disparage pgPool, but we have also had great results with
pgBouncer.

Joshua D. Drake
>
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