On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:42 +0200, Szymon Guz wrote: > Hi, > in a PHP application working on Postgres normally the new connection > to the database is made per request. > > > This can potentially cause too big overhead, so I've got some > questions: > > > - is the overhead really noticeable? It can be. > - could this be solved using persistent connections, or the persistent > connections in php and postgres don't work properly? Don't use them. > - could this be solved using something like pgpool? > Yes, using a connection pooler will solve the problem. I prefer pgbouncer. Joshua D. Drake > > regards > Szymon -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general