How to rotate PgBouncer logs in Linux/Windows ?

Published on Aug 9, 2016

Before doing a deep dive into the subject, a short outline about PgBouncer, its a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL that dramatically reduces the processing time and resources for maintaining a large number of client connections to one or more databases. Typically used to increase the number of user connections that can be handled in a high performance environment. For more details on Installing/Configuring PgBouncer refer to the documentation here.

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Connection Pooling with Pgbouncer on PostgreSQL 9.0

Published on Aug 16, 2011

Connection pooling, Why we go for connection pooling in PostgreSQL, When your application demands for very good number of concurrent connection hits then you need to approach it, because Connection pool sits between your application and the database. Idea behind connection pool is that you have enough connections to use of all the available resources and any incoming requests are re-used without dropping the database connection and keeping ready for a new connection to use.

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