Re: [NOVICE] Many connections lingering

Slavisa Garic wrote:
> This is a serious problem for me as there are multiple users using our
> software on our server and I would want to avoid having connections
> open for a long time. In the scenario mentioned below I haven't
> explained the magnitute of the communications happening between Agents
> and DBServer. There could possibly be 100 or more Agents per
> experiment, per user running on remote machines at the same time,
> hence we need short transactions/pgsql connections. Agents need a
> reliable connection because failure to connect could mean a loss of
> computation results that were gathered over long periods of time.

Plenty of others have discussed the technical reasons why you are seeing
these connection issues. If you find it difficult to change your way of
working, you might find the pgpool connection-pooling project useful:
   http://pgpool.projects.postgresql.org/

HTH
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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd