pgsql and sql-relay

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#1Ryan Mahoney
ryan@paymentalliance.net

Has anyone on this list used sql-relay with pgsql? If you're not familiar
with it, you can find out more at:
http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html. My primary interest is to reap
the benefits of connection pooling on an Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL
configuration. We're setting up a farm of webservers to talk to our DB, if
we use PHP pooling, we may end up with thousands un-needed open
connections. Sql-relay looks a bit involved to set up - but just may be
worth it.

TIA

-Ryan Mahoney

#2Jan Wieck
JanWieck@Yahoo.com
In reply to: Ryan Mahoney (#1)
Re: pgsql and sql-relay

Ryan Mahoney wrote:

Has anyone on this list used sql-relay with pgsql? If you're not familiar
with it, you can find out more at:
http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html. My primary interest is to reap
the benefits of connection pooling on an Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL
configuration. We're setting up a farm of webservers to talk to our DB, if
we use PHP pooling, we may end up with thousands un-needed open
connections. Sql-relay looks a bit involved to set up - but just may be
worth it.

Well, the descriptions look really interesting so far. I'll
take a closer look at it soon.

Jan

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#3Matt Beauregard
matt@designscape.com.au
In reply to: Jan Wieck (#2)
Re: pgsql and sql-relay

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:00:59PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:

Ryan Mahoney wrote:

Has anyone on this list used sql-relay with pgsql? If you're not familiar
with it, you can find out more at:
http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html. My primary interest is to reap
the benefits of connection pooling on an Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL
configuration. We're setting up a farm of webservers to talk to our DB, if
we use PHP pooling, we may end up with thousands un-needed open
connections. Sql-relay looks a bit involved to set up - but just may be
worth it.

Well, the descriptions look really interesting so far. I'll
take a closer look at it soon.

We looked at it a while ago, and were unhappy with it. I'm trying to
remember why. I believe it was something to do with it mangling the
types of objects returned. In any case, now that I'm interested again
I'll see if it's improved since then ;-)

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#4Joshua Adam Ginsberg
rainman@owlnet.rice.edu
In reply to: Matt Beauregard (#3)
Re: pgsql and sql-relay

If you're not dying to use Apache, I might recommend taking a look at
AOLServer (http://www.aolserver.com)... it's thread-safe,
multi-threaded, db-connection pooling, lightweight web server...
extrememly fast (powers most of the major server at AOL serving 100+
conns/sec), easy to connect to postgresql (http://www.openacs.org), and
TCL API... if you need each virtual host to have its own db pools, you
can use AOLServer's nsvhr and nsunix modules to set up virtual hosts on
unix sockets... if the virtual hosts can share db pools, then you can
use the VAT module (http://zmbh.com/discussion/vat/)... Since it's got
it all built it, you might look into it...

-jag

Ryan Mahoney wrote:

Has anyone on this list used sql-relay with pgsql? If you're not familiar
with it, you can find out more at:
http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html. My primary interest is to reap
the benefits of connection pooling on an Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL
configuration. We're setting up a farm of webservers to talk to our

DB, if

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we use PHP pooling, we may end up with thousands un-needed open
connections. Sql-relay looks a bit involved to set up - but just may be
worth it.

#5Ian Harding
ianh@tpchd.org
In reply to: Joshua Adam Ginsberg (#4)
Re: pgsql and sql-relay

The best solution for connection pooling in a web based environment is, of course, AOLServer.;^)

http://www.aolserver.com

Ian

Matt Beauregard <matt@designscape.com.au> 07/05/01 05:32PM >>>

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:00:59PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:

Ryan Mahoney wrote:

Has anyone on this list used sql-relay with pgsql? If you're not familiar
with it, you can find out more at:
http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html. My primary interest is to reap
the benefits of connection pooling on an Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL
configuration. We're setting up a farm of webservers to talk to our DB, if
we use PHP pooling, we may end up with thousands un-needed open
connections. Sql-relay looks a bit involved to set up - but just may be
worth it.

Well, the descriptions look really interesting so far. I'll
take a closer look at it soon.

We looked at it a while ago, and were unhappy with it. I'm trying to
remember why. I believe it was something to do with it mangling the
types of objects returned. In any case, now that I'm interested again
I'll see if it's improved since then ;-)

--
Matt Beauregard
Technical Director, Designscape
Ph: +61 2 9361 4233 Fx: +61 2 9361 4633

Permission is given for unlimited distribution of this work under the
Copyright Act 1968 (2001 amended). Unless otherwise stated, you agree
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