I was considering putting pgpool in to place and was hoping to hear some feedback from those who use it. I am mostly concerned about the configuration I have. In my setup, any one database server contains between 100 and 300 databases on it, each of which may be accessed at any time by one of several web servers. The database servers I use are monsters - Dual Xeon 3.2 with 8GB of RAM. As I was querying this group earlier as to postgresql.conf tweaks I could do to speed things up the idea of setting fewer connections and using pgpool was brought up repeatedly. I am concerned that if I drop the number of connections to less than the number of databases I have, that pgpool would open the limit of connections, hold them open and not allow any connections to the remaining databases. Is this a concern? If I set up pgpool will I have to have the same number of connections as I have databases? Your input is appreciated. -John ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly