Re: Huge spikes in number of connections doing "PARSE"

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:58:52AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> writes:
> > while I understand it, and will pass this information to client, one
> > thing bugs me - one the problem happens only sometimes, with relatively
> > low count of backends?
> > we saw database running normally with 1200 connections, yet sometimes,
> > it has 500 connections, and then something happens and they all end up
> > locking in this parse mode.
>
> Well, if they're all busy, you're not going to get this cache reset
> problem.  It's idle backends that have fallen behind that create the
> problem.

thanks.

Best regards,

depesz

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