[Pgpool-general] Understanding the connection pooling

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> we look for some way to limit the number of active PostgreSQL server processes
> with clients doing mostly idle persistant connections to the DB. On the
> PostgreSQl mailing-list someone pointed me towards pgpool but from what i see
> (http://lists.pgfoundry.org/pipermail/pgpool-general/2005-February/000036.html)
> this isn`t the right tool to get something like "shared server" with Oracle or
> have i missed something?
> Can pgpool reduce the number of server processes per client?

What is Oracles's "shared server"?
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Tatsuo Ishii