Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > if you're at the point where you have so many connections that you > need a pool, the last place you want to put that is on the > overloaded database server itself. Therefore, it must be an > external piece of software to be effective, rather than being part > of the server itself. It *is* the last place you want to put it, but putting it there can be much better than not putting it *anywhere*, which is what we've often seen. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance