Beginning PostgreSQL on the Cloud: Simplifying Database as a Service on Cloud Platforms

© Baji Shaik, Avinash Vallarapu 2018

Baji Shaik and Avinash VallarapuBeginning PostgreSQL on the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3447-1_11

11. Connection Pooling on the Cloud

Baji Shaik¹  and Avinash Vallarapu¹

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Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

 

This chapter covers what a connection pooler is and how it helps database connections. We include installation and configuration of external connection poolers like pgBouncer on each cloud vendor, as well as external connection poolers like DBCP on all cloud venders. Apart from learning about the external tools, you’ll learn how to set up connection poolers at the application level.

Connection Pooling

To get started with connection pooling, you learn how connections are handled in PostgreSQL. When ...