Re: Connection pooling - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Max Zorloff
Subject Re: Connection pooling
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In response to Re: Connection pooling  ("Marko Kreen" <markokr@gmail.com>)
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Re: Connection pooling
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On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:58:36 +0400, Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> wrote:

>> The pgpool (I tried 3.1, 3.4 and pgpool-II 1.2) works fine but has the
>> following problem - after some time it
>> just "hangs", and if I try to connect to it with psql it just hangs
>> indefinitely. After restart
>> it works fine again. I turned off persistent connections in php so it's
>> not that. Does anybody
>> have the same problem?
>
> All symptoms point to the same problem - your app fails to
> release server connections for reuse.
>
> If the problem is that PHP fails to disconnect connection,
> although the transaction is finished, you could run pgbouncer
> in more relaxed mode - pool_mode=transaction.  Also setting
> client_idle_timeout to something may help debugging.

> If the problem is uncommitted transactions, you could set
> query_timeout to some small number (1-3) to see where
> errors appear.
>
> Both timeouts are not something I would put into productions
> config, so the code should be fixed still...

pgbouncer does not have this problem, only pgpool does.
pgbouncer has the problem of being very slow.

i thought php released connections at the end of script?
and also if i had this problem pgpool would hang in a few seconds
because the server has some load.

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