Re: pgsql and sql-relay - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Matt Beauregard
Subject Re: pgsql and sql-relay
Date
Msg-id 20010706103228.H52121@designscape.com.au
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In response to Re: pgsql and sql-relay  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:00:59PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Ryan Mahoney wrote:
> > Has anyone on this list used sql-relay with pgsql?  If you're not familiar
> > with it, you can find out more at:
> > http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html.  My primary interest is to reap
> > the benefits of connection pooling on an Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL
> > configuration.  We're setting up a farm of webservers to talk to our DB, if
> > we use PHP pooling, we may end up with thousands un-needed open
> > connections.  Sql-relay looks a bit involved to set up - but just may be
> > worth it.
>
>     Well,  the  descriptions look really interesting so far. I'll
>     take a closer look at it soon.

We looked at it a while ago, and were unhappy with it.  I'm trying to
remember why.  I believe it was something to do with it mangling the
types of objects returned.  In any case, now that I'm interested again
I'll see if it's improved since then ;-)


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