Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> if you're at the point where you have so many connections that you
> need a pool, the last place you want to put that is on the
> overloaded database server itself. Therefore, it must be an
> external piece of software to be effective, rather than being part
> of the server itself.
It *is* the last place you want to put it, but putting it there can
be much better than not putting it *anywhere*, which is what we've
often seen.
-Kevin