PostgreSQL connection management and per-client process model explained

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In this video, I delved deep into Postgres' connection management, exploring its unique process per user client-server model. By analyzing the source code, we uncovered how Postgres creates a new process for each client connection, despite the apparent resource cost. This design choice enables fault tolerance and isolation between client connections. The video highlighted the importance of connection pooling tools like PG Bouncer to optimize resource usage. Despite its drawbacks, Postgres' process-based approach offers resilience and reliability in handling client connections.
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[@srinathreddy6940]

Arpit man loved the explanation!. ServerLoop is the API that is actually responsible for forking the backend processes, like client process (just to add, here we will get 2 processes 1 is idle which acts like server process and other process is psql client where the queries are taken and sent to the idle using libpq library these 2 processes communicate over sockets),loved the detail of how you mentioned about the postmaster closes the socket fd of the newly forked process(idle) [StreamClose(port->sock);] and then child process will close the postmaster's socket fds [/* Close the postmaster's sockets */ ClosePostmasterPorts(false);] as it inherited these from the postmaster.

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Good explanation

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can you pls elaborate connection pooling concept in detail
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This! Pool client detail would be good!

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[@dev_io]

PostgreSQL connection management and per-client process model. When i correlate with ACID properties, I am getting confused how these multiple process ensures Isolation, how two parallel calls to update single row will excecute as if they executed in sequence?

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You need to read about MVCC in postgres. It will answer your questions.

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I have some plans for it, but not finding enough time due to other commitments. But thanks for the nudge.