Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3Hm-0002pd-Fd for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:00:26 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3Hk-0001Lf-VG for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:00:25 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:7903:4::125]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3HO-00011Z-4w for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:00:02 +0000 Received: from hogranch.com ([75.101.82.47]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UA3HM-00050u-4h for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:00:01 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (porker [192.168.0.2]) by hogranch.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id r1PIxu922224 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:59:56 -0800 Message-ID: <512BB4A6.5030409@hogranch.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:59:50 -0800 From: John R Pierce User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Use, Set Catalog and JDBC questions References: <512BAE9A.2000401@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <512BAE9A.2000401@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HawgScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-HawgScanner: Found to be clean X-Pg-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-general Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org On 2/25/2013 10:34 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > Not sure if this will do what want?: > http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/91/datasource.html#ds-intro a connection pool is something completely different. pools are used when you have many client threads connecting and disconnecting to the same database, you can use a pool to reduce the actual number of connections by sharing a pool of ready-made connections. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general