Re: scaling up postgres - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Neil Saunders
Subject Re: scaling up postgres
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In response to Re: scaling up postgres  (David Boreham <david_list@boreham.org>)
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> As per PFC's comment, if connections/sec is a bottleneck for you then
the
> answer is to use persistent connections. Launching a new backend
is a fairly
> heavyweight operation in Postgres.
>

In which case maybe pgpool could help in this respect?
http://pgpool.projects.postgresql.org/

Cheers,

Neil.

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