Re: New server setup

Niels Kristian Schjødt <nielskristian@autouncle.com> wrote:

> So my question is, should I also get something like pgpool2 setup
> at the same time? Is it, from your experience, likely to increase
> my throughput a lot more, if I had a connection pool of eg. 20
> connections, instead of 300 concurrent ones directly?

In my experience, it can make a big difference.  If you are just
using the pooler for this reason, and don't need any of the other
features of pgpool, I suggest pgbouncer.  It is a simpler, more
lightweight tool.

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