Re: Scalability in postgres - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
Subject Re: Scalability in postgres
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Msg-id 2f4958ff0905290345p56625f6fsef719f134559a7a0@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Scalability in postgres  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
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Re: Scalability in postgres
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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:

>  The PostgreSQL connection handler is known to be bad at handling high
> connection loads compared to the popular pooling projects, so you really
> shouldn't throw this problem at it. While kernel problems stack on top of
> that, you really shouldn't start at kernel fixes; nail the really
> fundamental and obvious problem first.

if it is implemented somewhere else better, shouldn't that make it
obvious that postgresql should solve it internally ? It is really
annoying to hear all the time that you should add additional path of
execution to already complex stack, and rely on more code to handle
something (poolers).


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GJ

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