Re: Pooling in Core WAS: Need help in performance tuning.

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:36 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Craig Ringer
> <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> > So rather than asking "should core have a connection pool" perhaps
> > what's needed is to ask "what can an in-core pool do that an external
> > pool cannot do?"
>
> Avoid sending every connection through an extra hop.

not really. in-core != magically-in-right-backend-process


there will still be "an extra hop",only it will be local, between pooler
and backend process.

similar to what currently happens with pgbouncer when you deploy it on
same server and use unix sockets

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