Tino Wildenhain wrote: > Magnus Hagander schrieb: >> I'd consider having a small daemon LISTENing for NOTIFYs that you send >> by triggers whenever the table has changed. That'll make sure it only >> dumps if something actually changed. And you can also implement some >> ratelimiting if needed. > Do you really think such a homegrown solution will be more > performant then just accessing postgres? If you have > many users the lookup time in a .htaccess/.htpasswd is not for > free either. Right, that's what it depends on. I'd measure it. In systems with not too many users (say just a couple of thousand), I've measured great improvements in speed. It depends on how you authenticate as well - if you authenticate every single http request, the difference is greater. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend