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Re: Using Postgresql as application server

Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>

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From: Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-08-16T05:52:20Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Yep.  Also, it's REAL easy to stick a caching layer like memcached
> into the middle tier app layer, but nearly impossible to do so in
> pgsql.  For large systems, this would make pg as an app server a nogo.
>  But for small to medium sized systems that don't need caching it
> could work out.
>
The other big scalability limitation for Pg as an app server is you
really can't do connection pooling.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers