On 10/22/2013 1:13 PM, andy wrote:
No, actually, I don't think my connect overhead is huge. My apache and postgres are on the same box, and it connects using unix socket. Perhaps if my apache on db were on different boxes it would be a problem.
each postgres connection, if you're not using a pool, requires a fork() of the postgres process. fork is inherently an expensive process, especially for a moderately large and fairly complex piece of software like postgresql.
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