Re: New server setup - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: New server setup
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Msg-id 1362501244.18199.YahooMailNeo@web162905.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: New server setup  (Niels Kristian Schjødt <nielskristian@autouncle.com>)
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Niels Kristian Schjødt <nielskristian@autouncle.com> wrote:

> So my question is, should I also get something like pgpool2 setup
> at the same time? Is it, from your experience, likely to increase
> my throughput a lot more, if I had a connection pool of eg. 20
> connections, instead of 300 concurrent ones directly?

In my experience, it can make a big difference.  If you are just
using the pooler for this reason, and don't need any of the other
features of pgpool, I suggest pgbouncer.  It is a simpler, more
lightweight tool.

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Kevin Grittner
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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