Re: Question about using Apache::DBI with Postgres/MySQL

2005-08-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Aug 18, 2005, at 5:55 PM, David Hodgkinson wrote: But you're still trying to optimise prematurely. I'll need to to a lot of optimizing in the future - but I just want to avoid as many obvious mistakes as possible and compartmentalize where the mistakes are made so I can find them qui

Re: Question about using Apache::DBI with Postgres/MySQL

2005-08-18 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 18 Aug 2005, at 18:58, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: i'm thinking about moving to pgsql for stored procedures too (yes my5 has it, but its beta), but thats an entirely OT discussion. And you have pgpool too. But you're still trying to optimise prematurely. Treat your fat apaches as application

Re: Question about using Apache::DBI with Postgres/MySQL

2005-08-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Aug 18, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote: If you can figure out a way to do that, you could theoretically have a separate process managing a pool of them. I doubt it would be worth it though. That's pretty much what I was thinking, but I didn't really want to do this in a situat

Re: Question about using Apache::DBI with Postgres/MySQL

2005-08-18 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 13:31 -0400, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > I didn't see anything about DBI connections in the guide about that. It's one of the primary reasons to use a front-end server. I'm afraid your idea won't work because most databases don't support passing handles across processes. If y

Re: Question about using Apache::DBI with Postgres/MySQL

2005-08-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
I'm front-ending with lighttpd right now (originally was apache, but I moved over) and limiting with maxclients I didn't see anything about DBI connections in the guide about that. i guess i was just thinking about making myself more aware of the number of connections. On Aug 18, 2005, at 1

Re: Question about using Apache::DBI with Postgres/MySQL

2005-08-18 Thread David Hodgkinson
On 18 Aug 2005, at 18:18, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: Instead of connecting to the DB and having DBI cache the handle after-the-fork, would it make sense to subclass Apache::DBI, have the parent process create a defined number of connections, and then use some sort of roundrobin/checkout to si

Question about using Apache::DBI with Postgres/MySQL

2005-08-18 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
Instead of connecting to the DB and having DBI cache the handle after-the-fork, would it make sense to subclass Apache::DBI, have the parent process create a defined number of connections, and then use some sort of roundrobin/checkout to sign out a handle during a request? You're asking "why?"