From: Y Sidhu <ysidhu@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database connection for Tbl_B established
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:36:50 -0700
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You are referring to pgpool? BTW, thanks for this insight.
Yudhvir
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On 5/30/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> "Y Sidhu" <ysidhu@gmail.com> writes:
> > The question is: Is this method of repeatedly establishing and
> > re-establishing database connections with the same 3 tables efficient?
>
> No. Launching a new backend process is a fairly expensive proposition;
> if you're striving for performance you don't want to do it for just one
> or two queries. Look into connection pooling ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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Yudhvir Singh Sidhu
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