[Pgpool-general] best location for pgpool in a 2 machine arrangement

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:23:40PM +0930, Admin wrote:
> > They found a big performance boost when moving the relay (pgpool in my 
> > example) onto the same machine as the database (and thus using a socket to 
> > communicate with postgres).
> 
> There might be something to that: can pgpool use UNIX domain sockets
> as opposed to TCP/IP?

Yes, pgpool can use UNIX domain sockets.

>  If so, then there'll be a significant benefit
> to using them (and has to be on the same machine).
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan