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PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook
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PostgreSQL High Performance Cookbook

by Dinesh Kumar, Chitij Chauhan
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 5. Connection Pooling and Database Partitioning

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Installing pgpool-II
  • Configuring pgpool-II and testing the setup
  • Installing PgBouncer
  • Connection pooling using PgBouncer
  • Managing Pgbouncer
  • Implementing partitioning
  • Managing artitions
  • Installing PL/Proxy
  • Partitioning with PL/Proxy

Introduction

pgpool-II is basically a middleware solution that works as an interface between a PostgreSQL server and a PostgreSQL client application. pgpool-II talks about the PostgreSQL's backend and frontend protocol and relays a connection between the two. pgpool-II caches incoming connections to PostgreSQL servers and reuses them whenever a new connection with the same properties comes in. This way it reduces connection overhead ...

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ISBN: 9781785284335